Full ‘Buck Moon’ Will Glitz the Stars With Mercury, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter in July—What to Watch For

Full ‘Buck Moon’ Will Glitz the Stars With Mercury, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter in July—What to Watch For
A full Buck Moon will rise on July 21.Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock
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In summer, these glorious animal appendages grow like nobody’s business. So much so, they even have their own monuments. Whether adorning a Roman moon goddess in the Louvre or simply a 14,000-pound pile of them in a town square in Wyoming, it’s undeniable: we love buck antlers. We have even named a moon after them.

The full Buck Moon is so-called because its month, July, is notably when male deer (bucks) begin to spectacularly increase the size of their antlers—which are not horns but the fastest-growing bones known to humans—at a blistering rate of 1/4 to 1 inch per day, gaining as much as a pound of weight every 24 hours. They are covered with an exquisite velvet that gets rubbed off and are used to attract mates and fight off challengers.

Michael Wing
Michael Wing
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Michael Wing is a writer and editor based in Calgary, Canada, where he was born and educated in the arts. He writes mainly on culture, human interest, and trending news.
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