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First supermoon of 2021 lights up the sky – Aljazeera.com
Making its closest approach to Earth, the bigger and brighter ‘supermoon’ has delighted sky-watchers.
The first of at least two supermoons of 2021 appeared on Monday, lighting up the night sky around the world.
It is also known as a pink moon, after the pink phlox that blooms in springtime, although it is pink in name only.
The moons orbit around the Earth is elliptical, making the distance between the two bodies change at times. When a full moon makes its closest approach to Earth, it looks bigger and brighter than usual and thus is described as a supermoon.
The full moon has other names as well,…
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