What better way to distract yourself from what is happening on our planet than to look at another celestial body? This Wednesday, April 8th, you will be able to see the 'Pink Super Moon' in the night sky.
It will not actually be pink, but it will be the largest and brightest of all the full moons of 2020 – those points every 29 and a half days when the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun, that is, we see the Moon fully illuminated.
This time we will see what people often call the 'Supermoon', as well as the full moon, because the Moon will be at perigee: the closest point to us in its elliptical orbit, just 357,035 kilometers from Earth.
The supermoon can appear 7 percent larger than the average full moon and 15 percent brighter. It's pretty exciting for astronomers.
If you want to take a closer look at our closest space neighbor, here's a stunning collage of 100,000 high-resolution photos of the lunar surface.
Sources: Photo: (Andrew McCarthy)
