ISLAMABAD: The year’s final supermoon — known as the Cold Moon — will illuminate skies across Pakistan tonight and tomorrow, according to state-run Radio Pakistan.
A supermoon occurs when the Moon reaches its closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit, making it appear noticeably larger and brighter than usual — up to 14% bigger and nearly 30% brighter.
This month’s Cold Moon marks the third consecutive supermoon of 2025, the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) confirmed.
The agency has urged the public, astronomy enthusiasts, students, and families to witness the celestial event, noting that no special equipment is required as long as weather conditions remain favourable.
The name Cold Moon traditionally refers to the full moon closest to the winter solstice — the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, CNN reports.
Pakistan has already witnessed two supermoons this year: the first on October 7, and the second on November 5 — the Beaver Supermoon — which Suparco described as the closest, biggest, and brightest full moon of 2025.
Earlier in September, a rare total lunar eclipse, popularly known as a blood moon, was obscured from Karachi due to heavy cloud cover.
