The Full Moon
Blue moons, black moons, pink moons, strawberry moons, micromoons, supermoons. For some reason, your news aggregation algorithm of choice thinks you really really really want to know all about these moons. "Catch This Weekend's AMAZING SUPERMOON," one headline (or, like, 500 of them) will announce. "The Supermoon Isn't Actually A Big Deal And You're All Ruining Astronomy," another will grouse.
The latest example is this weekend’s Super Snow Moon, which will rise on February 8. It may or may not be an actual supermoon, depending on who you ask (more on that later), but its name and disputed status don’t necessarily mean it will be particularly worth your gaze.
We get these super-duper-lunar events (remember the super blood wolf moon eclipse?) by smashing together all the qualifiers we’ve historically used to keep track of full moons throughout the year, and in the age of the internet, we can go a little overboard.