Near Earth – The biggest full moon of the year on Wednesday night

– The biggest full moon of the year on Wednesday night

This supermoon will only rise around 10 p.m. and set at 6 a.m. The International Space Station will also be visible.

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The moon will also be particularly close to the Earth, 357,000 kilometers away (illustration photo).

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The biggest full moon of the year will be visible in the sky on Wednesday evening. Sometimes also called a supermoon, this phenomenon occurs when our satellite is particularly low on the horizon.

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The moon is also particularly close to the Earth, 357,000 kilometers away. Since this celestial body revolves around our planet on an ellipse and not on a circle, the distance which separates them is not always the same. But it is much more the fact that it is currently particularly low on the southern horizon which is in question, indicated SRF Meteo.

Biggest of the year

It will be the biggest full moon of the year, writes the Swiss Astronomical Society. It will be closest to Earth at 8:38 p.m., but will not rise until around 10 p.m. to set at 6 a.m.

It will also be possible to observe during the night no less than five passages of the International Space Station, which looks like a star moving slowly in the sky.

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