"Wormy Moon" 2019: when to see her and why her name | Your Univision City 34 Los Angeles

The full moon of March, also known as the worm-full moon, illuminates the night of March 20, just to say goodbye to winter and welcome spring.

Why his name? Because it is during this season that the earth softens and the worms come out of the earth. During this time, the birds also create their nests and feed their babies, which is ideal for feeding.

This is the third full moon of the year and, although it will look smaller than the snow super-moon in February, it will be larger than the blood super-moon that occurred in January.

Recall that on January 20, the super-moon of blood, astrological event that will not happen again until May 26, 2021, occurred when sunlight is filtered by the earth's atmosphere, absorbing light blue and leaving a reddish color.

Almost a month later, on February 19, the night was once again illuminated with the super-moon of snow, an astronomical phenomenon that bears this particular name because it coincides with the snowfall in the United States and in Europe.

Why are superlunas happening? They occur when the Sun, Moon and Earth are perfectly aligned, so that the Earth can block the sun's rays that usually reach the Moon. For this reason, lunar eclipses can only be appreciated when there is a full moon.

The curious thing about this third and last super-moon of 2019 is that two astrological events will occur almost at the same time, as the full moon will reach its maximum point on Wednesday, March 20th at 6:43 pm (Pacific time), the day when the moon will reach its maximum point. spring equinox, early spring, will take place March 20 at 14:58 Pacific Time.

The last time the spring equinox and the full moon were so close, only 4 hours apart, it was 38 years ago, in 1981.