The stunning image of a full moon rising behind statues of angels fixed at the St. Isaak’s Cathedral in St.Petersburg, Russia. Saturday, May 5, 2012. The biggest and brightest full moon of the year
The biggest and brightest full moon of the year
The sky is lighting up tonight as our celestial neighbor passes closer to Earth than usual. According to experts, the Moon will appear up to 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter as it passes 221,802 miles from earth. And it is around 15,300 miles closer than average. Its distance from Earth varies because it follows an elliptical orbit rather than a circular one. The phenomenon is known as a perigee full moon but astronomers warn the ‘relatively uncommon’ celestial event may not amount to much.
The moon is obscured by the cross of Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) in Dresden, Germany
Almost full moon has risen behind the cross of the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) in Dresden, eastern Germany, on May 4, 2012. The lunar phase of full moon always occurs in an interval of about 29 or 30 days, when the sun is on the opposite side of the Earth from the moon.
The biggest and brightest full moon of the year
a rose bush in Los Angeles,California played in the moon’s light, along with a small bug resting on a budA runner makes his way along a trail in front of the once-a-year ‘super Moon’ at Papago Park in Phoenix, ArizonaFishermen near Bal Harbour in Florida rest on a jetty as the moon rises in the Atlantic OceanLAPD chopper flies in the moon’s foregroundThe brighter than normal moon was clear for all to see in Amman as a flock of birds flew over a mosqueThe full moon provides a stunning backdrop for Kosovo’s answer to New York’s Statue of Liberty on top a hotel in the capital Pristina this eveningBehind a steeple with crosses of an Orthodox church in the town of Novogrudok, BelarusSeen behind the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. The biggest and brightest full moon of the yearThe supermoon rises earlier today above the Temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounion, south east of Athens, Greece, while tourists watch onSeen from Mount Eden in Auckland, New Zealand. The biggest and brightest full moon of the year
