December's full moon, the 'Cold Moon,' rose in a blaze of color on Sunday night as the year’s final supermoon.
Last night, the Cold Moon rose majestically to bid farewell to 2024, casting first its orangey, then its silvery glow throughout one of the longest nights of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
The major lunar standstill is when the northernmost and southernmost moonrise and moonset are furthest apart. The moon has an 18.6-year cycle during which the exact places it rises and sets on the horizon waxes and wanes.''Cold Moon'' is the last full moon of 2024 and the first full moon of the winter. At each end of that cycle is a major lunar standstill, also called a lunistice, a rare celestial event that occurs when Earth and the moon are at their maximum tilts.
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