Rare Christmas full moon shines down

And then, for the first time in 38 years, the last full moon of the year will fall on Christmas. A report by the Weather.com says that the full moon will peak at 4:11 a.m. Christmas day.

Numerous full moons throughout the years have their own names, and the December moon takes it name from the fact it occurs at the beginnings of winter.

If you’re looking for Santa and his reindeer, maybe you’ll spot him in front of a full Christmas moon.

Tonight’s full moon will be the last one of 2015 and will bring the curtain down on an fantastic year of celestial events that included the supermoon lunar eclipse in September.

A rare full moon called the “Full Cold Moon” glowed over the Earth, brightening the night sky just before the Christmas Day.

The full moon every December is usually called the “cold moon” because of the fact that it is the month when the winter cold is experienced.

If you gazed up into the sky on Christmas Eve, and you might have seen rare weaving through the clouds.

In December 1977, Jimmy Carter was president and George Lucas’ Star Wars, released six months earlier, had become the highest grossing film of all time. Of course “cold” is relative these days.

NASA has a spacecraft now orbiting the Earth’s moon. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission has been investigating the lunar surface since 2009. So, unless you have a very good memory, you might want to look up at the sky on Friday and marvel at the moon’s magnificence. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.