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The "Buck Moon, biggest moon ever see the details

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 The "Buck Moon," the year's most brilliant supermoon, will illuminate the midnight sky in July. Source MIAMI - This week, keep your eyes peeled for a celestial event known as the "Buck Moon," which will be the most illuminated supermoon of 2022. There are a few different ways to define a supermoon, but in general, this phrase refers to a full moon that is both brighter and closer to Earth than it often is, giving it the appearance of being larger in the night sky. Some scientists believe that the phenomena takes place when the moon is approximately 90 percent of the way to perigee, which is the point in its orbit where it is closest to the Earth. The moon was at its perigee on July 13 at 5:06 a.m., which was also the day. According to NASA, the distance between Earth and the moon was around 222,089 miles, which is almost 17,000 miles closer than it is on average. On Wednesday evening, the moon will rise around 8:40 p.m., and on Thursday evening, it will rise at
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Launch of Europe's Vega C rocket

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 Watch today's launch of Europe's Vega C rocket for the first time. Source You can watch the launch of a new European rocket today (July 13). French-operated Arianespace is scheduled to launch its Vega C medium-lift rocket today at 8:13am EDT from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (1213 GMT, 9:13 local time in Kourou). Here at Space.com, thanks to Arianespace, you can watch it live or directly from the company (opens in new tab). To put it another way: This will be the first time the four-stage Vega C has been used in a mission. European Space Agency (ESA) officials said in a statement that the new variant can haul 2.3 tonnes of payload to a polar orbit about 435 miles (700 kilometres) above Earth, compared to 1.5 tonnes for Vega (opens in new tab). A primary payload for Vega-first C's mission to Earth orbit will be the Italian Space Agency's LARES-2 satellite. Using this satellite, researchers will be able to study the phenomenon known as frame dragging,
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