The new year will ring in with a pair of amazing celestial sights, with supermoons that will be visible on the first and last of January.
According to NASA, "A supermoon is a Moon that is full when it is also at or near its closest point in its orbit around Earth."
The first supermoon of 2018 will be visible on Jan. 1.
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The second supermoon of the year, visible on Jan. 31, will be an exceptional sight known as a "super blue blood moon."
The supermoon at the end of the month will be the second full moon of the month, which is called a blue moon. The Jan. 31 supermoon will also feature a total lunar eclipse which will be visible western North America to eastern Asia.
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Totally eclipsed moons are sometimes referred to as a "blood moon," which is why the end of the month supermoon earned the special designation of "super blue blood moon."