People are over the moon about the phenomenon.

Stargazers should gear themselves up for a celestial spectacular. The first supermoon of 2025 will take to the night sky on October 6, 2025, marking the first of three of these lunar spectaculars this year.

This cosmic phenomenon goes down on around midnight Eastern Time when the full moon will be situated opposite the sun, so the direct sunlight lights it up, USA Today reported. It will also be closer to Earth than it is all year — a phenomenon known as a perigee — making it appear 30% brighter and up to 14% larger than normal, Pix11 reported.

The event is colloquially dubbed the “Harvest Moon” because it occurs closest to the fall equinox, historically helping guide farmers as they harvested the last of the summer cornucopia before the

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