Tonight's moon will be the biggest and brightest supermoon of the year.
The term "snow moon" was coined by Native Americans and Europeans because February was associated with heavy snowfall. Other names associated with this month were the bone or hunger moon as the winter months were scarce in food supplies.
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The super snow moon is the second of three supermoon events in a packed lunar calendar for 2019, which marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the mission that took the first humans to the moon.
All eyes will be on the skies tonight as the moon appears unusually large, this is known as a "Moon Illusion", occurring when the moon is close to the horizon, with objects such as building and trees in front for scale our brains are tricked into thinking the moon is closer than it really is.
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The moon carries a different name every month because lunar months were associate with the changing seasons.
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