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Quackers's JournalThe best 2016 supermoon photo we've seen yet took several years of planning (ISS in front of moon)
The largest moon of the year, called the supermoon, shined its biggest and brightest in nearly 70 years early Monday morning.
Supermoons happen when the moon's wonky elliptical orbit lines up perfectly with the Earth and the sun. On November 14, this dance of orbital physics brought the moon to within 222,000 miles of Earth 30,000 miles closer than its most distant point during its full lunar phase. That made our celestial neighbor appear 14% bigger and 30% brighter than normal, according to NASA.
Photographers all over the world have published fantastic images of the event. However, one photo in particular, which we first saw at NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day site, stuck out above the rest:
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