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Are you ready for a cosmic shift of epic proportions? You’d better be, because such a shift is approaching, courtesy of our moon! This Friday, September 30th, the moon will be new but ‘black.’ During a black moon, the side of Earth’s natural satellite lit by the sun faces away from our planet. As a result, …
Also at Space.com which clarifies that when there are two New Moons in a single calendar month, the second one is called a Black Moon. This is analogous to a "Blue Moon" which is the second Full Moon occurring in a single calendar month.
(Score: 4, Informative) by butthurt on Saturday October 01 2016, @01:27AM
Thank you. Here are some more.
https://gizmodo.com/you-really-don-t-need-to-watch-the-black-moon-tonight-1787253745 [gizmodo.com]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/30/black-moon-set-to-rise-tonight-in-rare-lunar-event---but-what-is/ [telegraph.co.uk]
http://qz.com/796773/black-moon-september-30/ [qz.com]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/30/black-moon-rising-no-its-not-the-apocalypse/ [washingtonpost.com]
http://www.space.com/34258-rare-black-moon-rises-today.html [space.com]
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/30/rare-black-moon-rises-over-western-hemisphere-friday-night.html [foxnews.com] (alternate link for those who are banned from Fox News:https://web.archive.org/web/20161001012632/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/30/rare-black-moon-rises-over-western-hemisphere-friday-night.html [archive.org])