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Halloween 2020’s rare blue moon brings a treat to the skies – CNET
For the first time since World War II, people in all parts of the world will be able to see the Oct. 31 display.
A brilliant full moon rises at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2017.
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In the bizarre year that’s 2020, another highly unusual event is headed our way. This year’s Halloween full moon will be visible to the entire world, rather than just parts of it, for the first time since World War II, astronomy educator and former planetarium director Jeffrey Hunt says.
“When I was teaching, my high school students thought a full moon occurred every Halloween,” Hunt told me. Not…
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