It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like a Full Moon on Christmas

And NASA has confirmed the phenomenon will not happen on Christmas day again until 2034.

The next Christmas full moon after this year’s may be almost 20 years off, but several supermoons will occur in 2016: October 16, November 14 and December 14.

This Christmas, sky gazers will get one more present that they won’t have to unwrap.

The event is so rare, in fact, that a NASA spokesperson told USA news outlet ABC this would be the first Christmas Day to see a full moon since 1977.

The full moon will peak at 3 a.m. Christmas. A full moon on a December will bring cold wind and a night which is long and dark.

A snowy pine tree is lit by the full moon in this undated photo from Hokkaido, Japan.

Early indications are that record warmth could engulf the eastern seaboard, while a white Christmas looks more likely in the western half of the country.

You may have seen a graphic or story being shared on Facebook or elsewhere about full moons falling on Christmas Day.

With the winter solstice marking the longest night of the year, Native American Indians used the term for the full moon around the solstice, “Long Nights Moon”. The moon will be closest to the Earth, about 368,417 km away, on December 21.