While a full moon calendar comes in handy ... let's take a moment to orient ourselves in the moon phases diagram below, beginning with imagining Earth at the center of this illustration and ...

One spin of the Earth is how we measure one full day. While the Earth is spinning ... and this is what causes the phases of the Moon: This diagram shows how the Moon appears to change shape ...

The next full moon is at 12:56 pm EST on Monday, May 12 and is known as the Flower Moon. Here is a look at all the full moons ...

the full moon isn't perfectly full. We always see the same side of the moon, but part of it is in shadow, due to the moon's rotation. Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is ...

The micromoon refers to a full moon that rises when the celestial body is the farthest from Earth, which NASA states is about ...