Watch the Blue Moon of May 2019 Rise Today in a Live Webcast!
By Elizabeth Howell 33 minutes ago
The next full moon will shine on May 18, 2019.(Image: © Joel Kowsky/NASA)
You can watch this month's full Flower Moon, also a "Blue Moon," rise over Rome in a live broadcast from the Virtual Telescope Project. Tune in today (May 18) to see the show, starting at 1:45 p.m. EDT (1745 GMT).
"For sure, it [the moon] will put [on] its usual great show and we will show the moon rising above the legendary skyline of Rome," Gianluca Masi, an astrophysicist and the director of the Virtual Telescope Project, said in a statement.
You can watch the live webcast on Space.com here, courtesy of the Virtual Telescope Project.
The term Blue Moon has nothing to do with the color of the moon but instead is a moniker for an additional moon in a particular time period. Usually, the Blue Moon is defined as the second full moon in a month, but this time, the moniker comes from an older definition, explained Space.com skywatching columnist Joe Rao.
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