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Halloween Blue Moon

Image Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio Ernie Wright (USRA): Lead Visualizer David Ladd (USRA): Producer Noah Petro (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Published: October 27, 2020

For the first time since 2001, the Moon will be full on Halloween (October 31). And because this is the second Full Moon in October, it's also considered a Blue Moon. (It won't literally be blue, though.)

View the Moon's phase and libration leading up to the 2020 Halloween Blue Moon.

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