Supermoon glows around the globe (Photos)
It may have been only an optical illusion, but what a sight. The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrived Saturday night and glowed around the world.
In Brazil it illuminated the landmark Christ the Redeemer statue and later set behind a shantytown. In Florida, fishermen worked their lines amid the moonlight in Bal Harbour. And near Athens, tourists watched as the moon rose behind the Temple of Poseidon.
The moon was the closest it will get to the Earth this year - and appeared 14 percent larger because of that. At its peak it was about 221,802 miles from Earth. That's about 15,300 miles closer than average.
Here are images of the supermoon from around the world.
The supermoon seen here behind the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Tourists seen here admiring the supermoon at the Temple of Poseidon in Athens, Greece.
And here behind a steeple with crosses of an Orthodox church in Novogrudok, near Minsk, Belarus.
The supermoon at the St Isaak's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia.
In San Francisco, the supermoon's captured near Coit Tower.
A fisherman casts a line from a jetty as the supermoon appears over the Atlantic Ocean near Bal Harbour, Florida.
Source (story and images): AP
Published May 7, 2012
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