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HEADS UP! Supermoon lights up the sky
Night owls and stargazers were presented with a beautiful view on Saturday night, as the first of this season’s supermoons filled the night sky. For the uninitiated, a supermoon is a scientific phenomenon when the moon is 48,280 kilometre closer to Earth than the farthest point in its orbit and the moon looks bigger and brighter. Two additional supermoons are expected in 2014, one on August 10 and another on September 9, NASA said. August’s supermoon is expected to be the most remarkable of the year.
The Supermoon rises over houses in Olvera, in the southern Spanish province of Cadiz.
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HEADS UP! Supermoon lights up the sky
An aircraft passes in front of a supermoon rising over the Rideau Canal in Ottawa.
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HEADS UP! Supermoon lights up the sky
The supermoon, or perigee moon, rises behind the historic Mount Wilson Observatory at Mount Wilson in the AngelesNational Forest northeast of Los Angeles, California.
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HEADS UP! Supermoon lights up the sky
The Supermoon rises over downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
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HEADS UP! Supermoon lights up the sky
People stand and look at the moon one day ahead of the supermoon phenomenon from a bridge over 42nd Street in the Manhattan borough of New York.
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HEADS UP! Supermoon lights up the sky
A supermoon is seen over the Rideau Canal in Ottawa.
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HEADS UP! Supermoon lights up the sky
A super moon is seen next to Tokyo Sky Tree, the world’s tallest broadcasting tower at 634 metres, in Tokyo.
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HEADS UP! Supermoon lights up the sky
A supermoon rises behind the Washington Monument in Washington, DC.