{"id":12786,"date":"2025-10-08T09:44:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12786"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:21:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:51:01","slug":"what-is-a-supermoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-a-supermoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Supermoon Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a rare celestial supermoon illuminated the skyline around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Supermoon<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A supermoon occurs when <\/span><b>a full moon or new moon coincides<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the <\/span><b>perigee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or moon\u2019s closest approach to the earth in its elliptical orbit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because the moon\u2019s orbit is not a perfect circle, its distance from the earth varies throughout the month by around 50,000 km.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the moon is <\/span><b>near its perigee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and also directly opposite the sun, the <\/span><b>full moon appears<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about 14% larger and 30% brighter than when it is at its farthest point.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The term \u201cSupermoon\u201d was coined by <\/span><b>astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, defining it as a special event when a full moon is within 90 percent of its closest point to Earth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Impact of Supermoon<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supermoons influence <\/span><b>the tides, creating perigean spring <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tides\/\" target=\"_blank\">tides<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These tides are slightly higher and lower than usual because the moon\u2019s stronger gravitational pull acts in concert with that of the sun.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These changes are typically modest, they can <\/span><b>exacerbate coastal flooding<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when combined with storm surges.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/what-is-a-supermoon\/article70133754.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermoon occurs when a full moon or new moon coincides with the perigee or moon\u2019s closest approach to the earth in its elliptical orbit. Read more about Supermoon, Definition, Impact of Supermoon, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":67466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,3133,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-12786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-supermoon","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}