April's full "Pink Moon" dazzled stargazers with a glorious display of moonlight on April 1, mere hours before NASA's Artemis 2 mission launched 4 astronauts on a 10-day journey to the far side of the moon.
The April full moon is also known as the Pink Moon in North America, in reference to the ground-blooming plant phlox, which flowers in early spring in regions of the U.S. During a full moon, the lunar disk appears completely lit from our perspective on Earth as it travels opposite the sun in our sky.
