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NSU Professors Host Supermoon and Total Eclipse Viewing Party on Campus
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s plane! It’s a supermoon!
Okay, it may not have been Superman, but still, it was a supermoon, and that is pretty cool. What made the supermoon even more special is it was also be a total eclipse of the moon – something that’s pretty rare. And to mark the occasion, faculty from NSU’s Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography hosted a viewing party.
More than 150 people came out to witness this astronomical rarity, many of them bringing their lawn chairs so they could sit and soak it all in. After all, this event only happens every 20-30 years on average, with the next one anticipated some 33 years from now.
This event was one of several that are planned throughout the coming year, all of which are designed to engage, enlighten and inform the NSU community about our solar system and all the wonders it contains.