The moon looks bigger sometimes because it’s closer to Earth. Imagine you have a ball that you hold up close to your face, it looks big, right? But if you move it far away, it seems smaller. The same thing happens with the moon: when it's closer to us, we see it as larger. That special time is called a supermoon.
Examples
- A supermoon is like when your friend holds up a big balloon close to their face, it looks huge!
- On a night with a supermoon, you might feel like the moon is shining extra bright in the sky.
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See also
- What If We Lost the Moon?
- What If We Lost Earth's Moon?
- What Is a Solar Eclipse?
- What is A supermoon results from the conjunction of two events?
- What Is a Solar Eclipse and How Does It Happen?