A typical season has three full moons. A blue moon rises behind the Statue of Liberty seen from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., Friday, July 31, 2015.

A typical season has three full moons. A blue moon rises behind the Statue of Liberty seen from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., Friday, July 31, 2015.

A typical season has three full moons. A blue moon rises behind the Statue of Liberty seen from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., Friday, July 31, 2015.

The Blue Moon has nothing to do with color. Most commonly, a Blue Moon occurs when there are two full moons in the same month. The first would get the ...

Neither of the definitions, however, are connected to the moon's true color; most of these blue moons will actually appear whitish. Moonlight can also appear as other colors.

According to Space.com, Black Moons occur roughly every 29 months, around the same frequency as Blue Moons. By the “two moons in a month” definition, there will not be a “Black Moon” in ...