May's Flower Moon illuminates night sky Friday as micromoon

Each month, the sky offers a quiet reminder that we live in motion — orbiting, tilting, cycling through light and shadow. This Friday at 18:23, May's Flower Moon reaches fullness near its farthest point from Earth, rendering it a micromoon: marginally smaller, slightly dimmer, yet no less ancient in its meaning. Named for the blooms that define the season, it rises into a spring evening that may or may not be clear, and for those who miss it, a rare Blue Moon waits at the month's end — a second chance written into the mathematics of time itself.