See spectacular photos of rare blue supermoon from around the world

Dazzling photos captured across the globe show August’s rare blue supermoon, an astrological phenomenon that won’t fire up the skies again for more than a decade.

The blue moon, the second supermoon this month, will reach its peak Wednesday night but is expected to appear full until Friday morning, according to NASA. The U.S. Navy moonrise calendar can be used to check the moon’s optimal time based on location.

While beautiful, Wednesday night’s unique moon can worsen the extreme weather, delivered by Hurricane Idalia, which is battering parts of the southeastern U.S. The intensified gravitational pull of a supermoon can make tides higher, exacerbating flooding in areas inundated after Category 3 Idalia walloped Florida Wednesday morning. The storm moved into parts of Georgia and the Carolinas later in the day as a Category 1, causing widespread flooding and catastrophic storm surge.

A blue supermoon is rare, as roughly 25 percent of full moons are supermoons and only 3 percent of those are blue moons, according to NASA, which notes that a blue moon will not appear blue in color. The term “blue moon” refers to the second full moon in any month.

The next blue moon will take place in May 2026. While a blue supermoon won’t occur until 2037, that year, two will light up the skies, in January and March, according to NASA.

Newsweek reached out via email on Wednesday to NASA for comment.

Photographers from around the world captured jaw-dropping images of Wednesday night’s lunar spectacle.

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The blue supermoon rises behind One World Trade Center and the skyline of lower Manhattan in New York City, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey.