# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DCZ0P8OAxY_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/24882347-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-11-15T19:15:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Full moon tonight!

Friday, Nov. 15, is a great opportunity to see our fourth supermoon in a row—and the last one of 2024. November's full moon is sometimes called the Beaver Moon: November is when beavers prepare for the winter by fortifying dams and stocking their food supply.

A supermoon takes place when the full moon is near perigee, its closest point to Earth: a distance of about 226,000 miles, or 364,000 kilometers. When the full moon is at its furthest distance from Earth—about 253,000 miles (407,000 km), its apogee—it's sometimes known as a micromoon.

Visit moon.nasa.gov to learn more about our orbiting neighbor!

Image description: A hazy, orange-red moon rises over a subway car, which is moving so quickly that it is slightly blurred in the image. The night sky is a uniform shade of very dark blue, but a few clouds can be seen passing in front of the bright moon.

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

#NASA #Space #Moon #Supermoon #FullMoon #BeaverMoon #Skywatcher

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supermoon, skywatcher, beavermoon, nasa, space, moon, fullmoon

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