This week, we got the first supermoon of 2023 — there will be four this year — and this one is known as the “buck moon.” And why is that? From USA TODAY:
July’s full moon is called the buck moon because this is when deer antlers are in full growth after shedding during the spring. “Bucks shed and regrow their antlers each year, producing a larger and more impressive set as the years go by,” the Old Farmer’s Almanac said.
Check out the photos:
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The “buck moon” rises over Dubai behind the minaret of a mosque on July 3, 2023. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)
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The “buck moon” rises behind Basra International Stadium in Iraq’s southern city of Basra on July 3, 2023. (Photo by Hussein Faleh / AFP) (Photo by HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images)
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People watch as the “buck moon” rises over the skyline of Kuwait City on July 3, 2023. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP) (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)
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The full super and a blue moon rises over in Skopje on July 4, 2023.Robert ATANASOVSKI / AFP (Photo by Robert ATANASOVSKI / AFP) (Photo by ROBERT ATANASOVSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Buck Full Moon rises behind the Mount Diablo Summit Visitor Center atop Mount Diablo, Calif., on Sunday, July 2, 2023. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group via AP)
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A super moon rises behind a tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
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The full moon rises in the evening in the sky behind the Frauenkirche, in Dresden, Germany, Monday, July 3, 2023. (Robert Michael/dpa via AP)
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A super moon rises on the night sky behind the Chlemoutsi medical castle in Kyllini, Peloponnese, Greece, on Monday, July 3, 2023.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A couple crossthe Al-Shuhada’a bridge over the Tigris River as the full moon rising in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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The buck supermoon glows orange as it rises through smoke and atmospheric haze Monday, July 3, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. The July full moon is the first of four supermoons to rise in 2023. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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A super moon rises behind a Soviet-era monument for defenders of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, in World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, early Tuesday, July 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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A full moon rises behind Camlica mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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