New Delhi:\u00a0<\/strong>The world is witnessing the first Full Moon of 2020 this weekend – with the best views expected on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAs per NASA, the full moon will appear for nearly three days, from Friday to Monday, with Supermoon sight expected on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While most people are aware of the full moon phenomenon, the term Supermoon could be new to many people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, let’s understand what is a Supermoon and how it is different from a full moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A full moon occurs when the moon lines up on the opposite side of earth from the sun. On a full moon night, the moon is visible in its complete form, or fully illuminated from the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Supermoon phenomenon is almost similar to the full moon phenomenon, with a slight difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The moon never orbits earth in a perfect circle. Instead, it travels in an ellipse which brings it closer to and farther to earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In scientific terms, the farthest point in during the ellipse is known as apogee, while the closest point is known as perigee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Supermoon only occurs when the moon occurs at or near the perigee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The moon looks slightly larger and brighter than a typical full moon on this day – that’s what the term “supermoon” refers to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When will be the Supermoon visible in India?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAccording to NASA, the Supermoon will appear on February 9 at 2:33am EST. The data provided by Norwegian site TimeandDate.com indicates that the full moon phase will occur at 1:03pm IST on Sunday. This means that the first supermoon of 2020 will only appear partially for stargazers in India sometime in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As per NASA, the Moon will appear full for nearly three days, from Friday to Monday, with Supermoon sight expected on Sunday. Source: NDTV New Delhi:\u00a0The world is witnessing the first Full Moon of 2020 this weekend – with the best views expected on Sunday. As per NASA, the full moon will appear for nearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}