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Supermoon: Skygazers across the world witness spectacular lunar event

Supermoon Dazzled Delhi Sky On Monday Evening As Skygazers Took To High-rise Buildings To Get Glimpse Of The Closest Supermoon To The Earth In Almost Last Seven Decades

News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Apoorva Nawaz | Updated on: 15 Nov 2016, 12:22:32 AM
Supermoon Skygazers across the world witness spectacular lunar event (Getty Images)

New Delhi:

Delhi skygazers witnessed the biggest and brightest Supermoon since 1948. Supermoon dazzled Delhi sky on Monday evening as skygazers took to high-rise buildings to get glimpse of the closest supermoon to the Earth in almost last seven decades.

People snapped dramatic supermoon pictures.

 
A supermoon occurs due to the strange, egg-shaped orbit of the moon. One part of the orbit known as the perigee, is about 30,000 miles closer to earth than the apogee, or the furthest part. 

Supermoon is a phenomenon which takes place when the full moon is closest to the Earth, is biggest and brightest. This phenomenon is occurring after 69 years. Supermoon was last witnessed in 1948.

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The scientific term for a ‘supermoon’ is perigee-syzygy. ‘Perigee’ is the point on the Moon’s orbit closest to the Earth.

Supermoons generally appear to be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full moons.

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First Published : 14 Nov 2016, 09:48:00 PM

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