Photo: “Supermoon” Lights Up Night Sky
The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrived last night [May 5], with a “Supermoon” appearing in the night sky. The moon was around 220,000 miles away, compared to an average distance of around 240,000 miles, which caused the moon to appearing about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than normal full moons.
The photo below was taken at around midnight from a vantage point in St David’s:
Dr. James Garvin, chief scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said, “Supermoon’ is a situation when the moon is slightly closer to Earth in its orbit than on average, and this effect is most noticeable when it occurs at the same time as a full moon. So, the moon may seem bigger although the difference in its distance from Earth is only a few percent at such times.”
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