Although there are usually understandable reasons for this, it seems that astronomers made sure to give every special moon phase a really cool sounding name.
For instance, if you were watching the skies in January, you may have caught sight of the Super Wolf Blood Moon Eclipse, which sounds like the name of the band we tried to start in high school.
And while it's not quite as over the top as that example, the upcoming New Black Supermoon seems to combine a lot of words that almost instinctively catch our interest.
But what exactly is it?