2024年8月，超级月亮在NASA马歇尔附近升起

A super blue Moon rises over Huntsville, Alabama, home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Aug. 19.
NASA/Michael DeMocker

A super blue Moon rises over Huntsville, Alabama, home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Aug. 19. Visible through Wednesday, Aug. 21, the full Moon is both a supermoon and a Blue Moon. As the Moon reaches its closest approach to Earth, the Moon looks larger in the night sky with supermoons becoming the biggest and brightest full Moons of the year. While not blue in color, the third full Moon in a season with four full Moons is called a “Blue Moon.”

Huntsville is known as the “Rocket City” because of its proximity to NASA Marshall, which manages vital propulsion systems and hardware, engineering technologies, cutting-edge science, and launch vehicles for Apollo, shuttle, and Artemis. (NASA/Michael DeMocker)

8月19日，NASA马歇尔太空飞行中心和美国航天与火箭中心所在地阿拉巴马州亨茨维尔上空升起一轮超级蓝月。
NASA/Michael DeMocker

8月19日，NASA马歇尔太空飞行中心和美国航天与火箭中心所在地阿拉巴马州亨茨维尔上空升起一轮超级蓝月。满月将持续到8月21日星期三，它既是超级月亮，也是蓝月。当月亮到达离地球最近的位置时，月亮在夜空中看起来更大，超级月亮成为一年中最大、最亮的满月。虽然不是蓝色的，但在一个有四个满月的季节里的第三个满月被称为蓝月。

亨茨维尔被称为 “火箭之城”，因为它毗邻NASA马歇尔太空飞行中心，该中心管理着重要的推进系统和硬件、工程技术、尖端科学以及阿波罗、航天飞机和阿尔忒弥斯的运载火箭。(NASA/Michael DeMocker）。