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Breathtaking pics of the supermoon over Australia Anthony Sharwood, Wednesday April 28, 2021 - 18:53 EST
It s like a whole different moon. During supermoon, the moon appears up to 14 percent larger when viewed from Earth.
But what exactly is a supermoon? As we told you earlier this week, the moon s orbit of the earth is slightly elliptical. That means that it s never quite the same distance from us.
This composite image below illustrates that perfectly. When the moon is closest to Earth, that s called its perigree and it s 363,396 km away. At its furthest point from Earth, old Moony McMoonFace is 405,504 km away. That s called its apogee, or a micromoon .