An astronomical event awaits fans of stars and astronomers in the coming hours, as it decorates The giant moon Super Moon is the sky of Egypt, the Arab world, and the world.
The full moon occurs in the first hours of Sunday, February 9, when it is located on the other side of the earth like the sun, which means that its face is fully lit, reaching its peak at 07:33 am GMT, according to the NASA.
The giant moon is called “Badr Al-Snow”
According to Dr. Ashraf Tadros, former head of the astronomy department at the Astronomy Institute and a professor of astronomy at the National Institute for Astronomical Research, during his conversation with “The Home”, the giant moon was called “Badr of the Snow,” by Native Americans, because the heaviest snow falls during this Time of year, and this full moon was also known in some tribes as “Badr al-Sid”, because bad weather makes fishing difficult.
4 giant moons in 2020
On the other hand, this full moon known as the giant or “Super moon“The first is one of four gigantic spheres of 2020, when the moon is the closest distance from Earth to orbit, and it looks slightly larger and brighter than usual, according to the former head of the astronomy department of the Astronomy Institute.
The orbit of the moon is elliptical, which causes it to approach the Earth and move away from it during its orbit, according to “NASA”, which added that the farthest point in this orbital segment is called the “apogee” and is about 405,500 km from the Earth on average, and the closest point to it is The “perihelion”, located 36,300 kilometers from Earth.
And when the full moon appears at rock bottom, it becomes brighter and slightly larger than the normal full moon, and this is where we get a giant moon.
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