{"id":10398,"date":"2025-08-19T23:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10398\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T23:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:42:11","slug":"a-rare-black-moon-set-to-rise-this-week-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10398\/","title":{"rendered":"A rare \u2018Black Moon\u2019 set to rise this week: What to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gettyimages-2161338917.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">A long exposure photo shows a man stands as a night sky full of stars and Milky Way in the 2,200-altitude Serafettin Plateau in Solhan district, Bingol, Turkiye on July 13, 2024. (Photo by Ridvan Korkulutas\/Anadolu via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Stargazers will get to observe a rare lunar event later this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/stargazing\/a-rare-black-moon-rises-with-the-sun-on-aug-23-2025-heres-what-to-expect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to Space.com<\/a>, a rare Black Moon will rise on August 23, although you won&#8217;t be able to see it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">At 2:06 a.m. EDT (06:06 GMT) \u2014 which is 11:06 p.m. PDT on Friday (Aug. 22) \u2014 the moon will officially pass through its new moon phase, according to the website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/8EFF524DEB9B60B08DCC3FB3FD8477E3.jpg\" alt=\"Duffy announces plans for nuclear reactor on the moon\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-fa1f2118=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/video\/1687211\" data-v-fa1f2118=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Duffy announces plans for nuclear reactor on the moon<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-fa1f2118=\"\">Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will reportedly announce plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon. Duffy also serves as the interim administrator of NASA. LiveNOW\u2019s Andrew Craft is finding out what future impacts of the idea could look like with Patrick McClure, Chief Operations Officer (COO) for Space Nuclear Power Corporation (Spacenukes).<\/p>\n<p> What is a Black Moon? <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">A Black Moon is the term used to describe the second new Moon in the same calendar month, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/astronomy\/moon\/black-moon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TimeAndDate.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>RELATED: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/potential-asteroid-impact-moon-2032-massive-meteor-shower-earth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Potential asteroid impact on Moon in 2032 could trigger massive meteor shower on Earth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/moon\/moon-phases\/#otp_what_are_lunar_phases?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NASA<\/a>, a new Moon is the lunar phase when the illuminated side of the Moon faces the Sun and the night side faces Earth.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">During a new Moon, the dark side faces Earth because the Moon is positioned between Earth and the Sun. Another example would be during a solar eclipse when a new Moon crosses the face of the sun. During this process, the Moon&#8217;s shadow is cast over the Earth.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Nights with a New Moon are ideal for astronomers, as the absence of moonlight makes faint celestial objects much easier to see.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Why you should care:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The event offers stargazers a clear view of stars, constellations, and bright planets, including Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mercury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> FOX Weather contributed to this report. This story was reported from Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/tag\/science\/air-space\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air and Space<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article A long exposure photo shows a man stands as a night sky full of stars and Milky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[10083,18,19,17,5,133,451],"class_list":{"0":"post-10398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-air-space","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}