A full moon occurs when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up, but the moon is on the side of the Earth opposite to the Sun. When the full moon is at its perigee – when it is closest to Earth – it appears up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter to us. This effect is called “supermoon.”
Next time the Moon will come so close to the Earth on November 25, 2034, so some of us were very lucky to watch it and take amazing pictures:
