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Tonight, but also on Tuesday night (tomorrow), there will be the first super-full moon of this year (two more will follow in 2021). As the moon will be closer to the Earth and the full moon will appear larger than usual for two consecutive nights.
This full moon was known to the Native Americans as the “Pink Moon” because it marked the appearance of a plant with pink flowers. One of the first of spring. The Moon will look slightly larger and brighter than usual, but it will definitely not be pink.
As the moon’s elliptical orbit around the Earth fluctuates the distance between bodies, a supermoon occurs when the full moon coincides in time with a very close approach to the Moon. The Earth-Moon distance ranges from 406,712 kilometers (peak) to 356,445 kilometers (peak).
On Tuesday, April 27, in the afternoon, the Moon will reach a distance of up to 357,379 kilometers from Earth.
Source: ΑΠΕ – ΜΠΕ
