Once-In-A-Generation Supermoon Eclipse Coming To Night Sky On September 27
- 9 years ago
On the night of Sunday, September 27th, the supermoon will coincide with a lunar eclipse. The rare combination is sure to captivate and will last about an hour.
It's exceedingly rare for a supermoon to coincide with a lunar eclipse. But on Sunday, September 27th, the night sky above the Americas will be filed with over an hour of one such remarkable cosmic display.
And though a once-in-a-generation turn of fortune—that is, planetary dynamics—brings the supermoon and lunar eclipse together at the same time, each on their own is hardly a rarity and fully predictable.
Noah Petro, deputy project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,
It's exceedingly rare for a supermoon to coincide with a lunar eclipse. But on Sunday, September 27th, the night sky above the Americas will be filed with over an hour of one such remarkable cosmic display.
And though a once-in-a-generation turn of fortune—that is, planetary dynamics—brings the supermoon and lunar eclipse together at the same time, each on their own is hardly a rarity and fully predictable.
Noah Petro, deputy project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,