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Strawberry Moon: Here's how it got its name and when you can see it
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Summer is one of the best times of year to look up at the night sky, and tonight there's a celestial event that has people talking, the Strawberry Moon. The Strawberry Moon is June's full moon, and its name actually comes from Indigenous peoples who used it to mark the short strawberry harvesting season. Dr. Ilana MacDonald from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, spoke to Andrew Carter.