Mark your calendars! The biggest full moon of the year is coming this week. 🌕
April's supermoon is the second of three to take place in in a row.Here's something to look forward to next week: The biggest, brightest supermoon of 2020 will be appearing in the night sky Tuesday, April 7.
"Watch for the biggest full moon of the year to shine all night long as it beams in the east after sunset April 7, climbs highest up for the night around midnight, and sets in the west around sunrise April 8,"Of the three supermoons this year, April's supermoon will come closest to our planet – and thus appear the largest.
The term “supermoon” was coined in 1979 by astrologer Richard Nolle. It has become an increasingly more popular and media-friendly term in the decades since then. According to NASA, it's used by the media today to describe what astronomers would call a perigean full moon: a full moon occurring near or at the time when the moon is at its closest point in its orbit around Earth.
Due to the optical effect known as the moon illusion, the full moon can seem huge when rising behind distant objects on the horizon. A supermoon appears especially impressive.
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