#WORM #MOON IN TWO HEMISPHERES: According to folklore, last night's full Moon was the Worm Moon, heralding the arrival of northern spring and the stirring of earthworms in thawing soil. Amateur astronomers Lucy Yunxi Hu and Soumyadeep Mukherjee photographed it from both hemispheres:

"We've been working on this project for 6 months," says Mukherjee, "and we were finally able to make it happen after overcoming a lot of challenges."

Operating their cameras thousands of miles apart, Mukherjee and Hu photographed the moonrise on March 7, 2023, from Dhanbad, India (top) and Canberra, Australia (bottom). The Worm Moon ascended the sky in different directions because Earth's eastern horizon at these two locations has a different angle relative to Earth's spin axis. "Nevertheless," says Mukherjee, "it's only one Moon!"