Once in a blue moon

Outside/In

NHPR

Science, Natural Sciences

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Why do we care about blue moons (and other seasonal curiosities)?

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0:00.0	The sky is so clear.
0:05.0	It reminds me almost of when you're in the desert, the sky is just really crisp.
0:10.0	And you don't see that much in New England, but it feels like that tonight.
0:13.0	It's beautiful.
0:14.0	Yeah.
0:15.0	Okay, so Felix, we are at NHPR's holiday party.
0:19.0	Yeah, outside. We abandoned the crowd.
0:21.2	Yes, exactly. For peaceful moments.
0:22.9	Are we just out here for like fresh air? What are we doing out here?
0:25.7	Well, I wanted to come out here to look at the moon together.
0:29.7	Oh, that's, that's very sweet.
0:32.5	It's very romantic.
0:33.1	It's very romantic. Yeah. I think it's a full moon. It looks like a full moon.
0:37.1	It's almost full, but it's not quite.
0:38.9	Yeah.
0:39.2	But does it look special at all to you? Like, I feel like there's always some new name for special moons.
0:45.5	Like, super blue, fragileistic.
0:49.3	I feel like, I feel like there's a lot of stories in the news about moons.
0:53.1	Like, is it a blood moon or
0:55.0	super moon or blue moon? It's a nice moon. That's nice moon. That's what I call it. Do you even know
1:01.8	what all those other names mean? No, I know the blue moon's an Elvis Presley song and all the others
1:06.7	are really cool names for things I don't understand. Yeah. Well, I just recently learned it.
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