What the supermoon looked like in the USA, Spain, the UK and Myanmar
On the night of December 3 to 4, Earthlings could observe a supermoon. The moon approached our planet at the closest possible distance — 358,500 kilometers instead of the usual 384,500 kilometers — and this position coincided with the full moon. During a supermoon, the size of the lunar disk visible from Earth increases by 14%, and the brightness increases by 30%. Here's how it looked in different countries of the world.
Spectacular timelapse video captures the moon setting this morning over the chapel at St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island; tonight's supermoon the first of three consecutive supermoons; the next two will occur on Jan. 1, 2018, and Jan. 31 https://t.co/YRjXvf3CAg pic.twitter.com/PxGzvvNQ2J
— ABC News (@ABC) December 4, 2017
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Spectacular timelapse video captures the moon setting this morning over the chapel at St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island; tonight's supermoon the first of three consecutive supermoons; the next two will occur on Jan. 1, 2018, and Jan. 31 https://t.co/YRjXvf3CAg pic.twitter.com/PxGzvvNQ2J— ABC News (@ABC) December 4, 2017
This winter, the natural phenomenon will happen twice more: on the night of January 1 to January 2 and from January 31 to February 1, 2018.