Starfield Is Launching Alongside Incredibly Rare Real-Life Astronomical Event

Starfield Is Launching Alongside Incredibly Rare Real-Life Astronomical Event https://ift.tt/GvgXNM4

Starfield is a spacefaring RPG that asks questions about the nature of the universe and humanity's place in it. As it happens, the game is launching right around the time of an awe-inspiring and real-life astronomical event: the arrival of the Super Blue Moon.

The full moon in the sky tonight, August 30, is actually a Super Blue Moon--which is when the phenomenons known as the supermoon and the Blue Moon combine. A Blue Moon is the term for when two full moons happen in the same month (and nothing to do with the color), while a supermoon is when a full moon is closer to Earth than normal.

Blue Moons happened once every two or three years, while supermoons happen multiple times per year. The next Super Blue Moon won't happen until 2037 (insert joke about the release date for The Elder Scrolls 6 here).

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