THE BLACK MOON RISES ON FRIDAY NIGHT

To begin with we had a supermoon to be watchful for, then a blood moon and now a black moon. What's going on?

Yes, Friday night, we have the apparently new wonder of a black moon to enchant sky-watchers. Be that as it may, attempt as you may, this time you can be guaranteed you won't see anything.

Black moon + black sky = invisible.

Like a blue moon — the second full moon of a solitary timetable month — a black moon is the second new moon of the month, as per Space.com.

"The black moon is a to some degree uncommon heavenly occasion — they happen about once like every 32 month," said Joe Rao of Space.com.

The latest black moon was in March 2014, as per AccuWeather.

The issue? New moon is invisible, as the sunlit side of the moon confronts far from the Earth, so the side we see is completely in shadow.

"There truly is nothing to see," Rao said.

Be that as it may, what will happen Friday night is an opportunity to appreciate the night sky with no glare from the moon.

The new moon formally happens at 8:11 p.m. EDT (5:11 p.m. PDT) on Friday. In any case, it will take a couple of more evenings before you'll begin to see the moon as a silver bit when the bow moon increments in size, ScienceAlert reports.

For those in the Eastern Half of the globe, especially Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe, the new moon doesn't happen until after 12 pm, weather.com says, so it's actually only a customary new moon for that part of the world since it happens on the first of one month from now.

Not everybody was taking everything in step. England's Express daily paper said that Friday's Black Moon could "carry with it overall devastation and the second happening to Jesus Christ."

A black moon can likewise be utilized to depict a month without either a full moon or another moon, as per Space.com. With just 28 days, February is the main month in which that can happen.

Online networking branding is mostly to fault for the late fever of supermoons, blood moons and blue moons, Rao said, on account of our longing for hashtags and slogans to announce or share an occasion.

"Are you prepared for yet another lunar 'brand?" he inquired. "The most current one is black moon."