Near the horizon, the supermoon looks the largest. From the Earth’s point of view, the size difference between a supermoon and its opposite, a micromoon, is about 14 percent. The supermoon also shines 30 percent brighter.
The phenomenon is about a full moon that coincides with the celestial body hitting the point in its orbit that is closest to the earth.
This year, the night sky has been lit up by the supermoon twice, one in mid-June and then this week, July 13th.
The supermoon over the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Wednesday, July 13. Over the silhouette of the city of Sydney, the supermoon is visible, the next time it arrives is in August 2023. A gull flies in front of the supermoon that is on its way up in Montevideo in Uruguay. The moon rises over a dwelling in the village of Putilov, east of St. Petersburg in Russia. An airplane passes the supermoon in Milwaukee in the USA. The supermoon in a string of lamps in Aegio in Greece. a sculpture in the Italian city of Milan, looks to look down on the display of the supermoon.