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When are the full moons of 2025? Here's a look ahead, plus best meteor showers

From The Asheville Citizen Times

When are the full moons of 2025? Here's a look ahead, plus best meteor showers

The weather outside is frightful but the feeling's so delightful when a son surprises his mom for the holidays.

With the final full moon of 2024 behind us, we have a full list of names coming up for 2025, plus plenty of other astronomical phenomena to look forward to.

Here's what to know about the lunar names, meteor showers and eclipses of 2025 as the new year approaches.

Each month's full moon has a name - the names originate from Indigenous traditions of several tribes and groups. By month, here are the names of the full moons:

Each month in 2025 will have a full moon. Here are when the full moons of 2025 will peak:

A supermoon occurs when a full or new moon falls during the closest point in the moon's orbit to Earth, according to NASA. The full moon can appear up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter at its closest point in the orbit.

Supermoons generally appear three or four times a year, always consecutively. During 2024, there were four on Aug. 19, Sept. 17, Oct. 17 and Nov. 15.

Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, contributed to this article.

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