Skygazers headed to high-rise buildings, ancient forts, and beaches to witness the closest supermoon to Earth in almost seven decades, hoping for dramatic photos and spectacular surf. The moon is the closest to Earth since 1948 at a distance of 221,524 miles, creating what NASA described as “an extra-supermoon.”
Here, the supermoon rises over the Sydney Opera House as it enters its final phase.
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The supermoon is partly covered by clouds as it sets behind Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep in the northern capital of Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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A man walks on the top span of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as the supermoon enters its final phase.
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The supermoon rises behind El Pensador (The Thinker) in Dos Hermanas, near Seville, southern Spain.
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The supermoon rises behind one of the seven statues by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa on Massena Square in Nice, France.
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A rising supermoon is seen through the Propylaea, the ancient Acropolis hill gateway, in Athens.
The supermoon rises in Prague.
The supermoon rises behind the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft, ahead of its upcoming launch to the International Space Station (ISS), at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
A tree is silhouetted as the supermoon rises over Heho, in Burma’s Shan state.
The supermoon sets behind the Chrysler Building in New York.
People on a funfair ride are silhouetted against the moon a day before the supermoon spectacle, in London.
An airplane flies past the London Eye wheel, and moon, a day before the supermoon spectacle.
The moon rises near Glastonbury Tor a day before the supermoon spectacle, in Glastonbury, England.
People are silhouetted against the supermoon in Prague.
A Free Syrian Army fighter sits on a pickup truck mounted with a weapon, as the supermoon partly covered by clouds is seen in the background, in the west of the rebel-held town of Dael, in Deraa governorate, Syria.
The supermoon rises over the United States Capitol dome in Washington, D.C.
Kuwaitis observe the supermoon spectacle in Kuwait City.
A man stands on a balcony of a building in Madrid as the moon rises in the background.
A supermoon is pictured in Nice, southeastern France.
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