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Over the following three centuries, only a few more moons were discovered. Missions to other planets in the 1970s, most notably the Voyager 1 and 2 missions, saw a surge in the number of moons detected, and observations since the year 2000, using mostly large, ground-based optical telescopes , have discovered many more, all of which are irregular.
In 2025, we will see 12 full moons, three supermoons, and two lunar eclipses. Here are the dates for all of them.
The last supermoon of 2023 rises over the horizon at a high school football game between Farragut and Bradley Central at Farragut, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023 in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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There are 12 full moons this year, here's what to know about when they are and what their names are.
The next moon, Galatea, orbits just inside the most prominent of Neptune's rings, the Adams ring. [21] This ring is very narrow, with a width not exceeding 50 km, [22] and has five embedded bright arcs. [21] The gravity of Galatea helps confine the ring particles within a limited region in the radial direction, maintaining the narrow ring.