Lunar science

If you missed some of the amazing astronomical phenomena this year, then you could make up for it in one outing. On November 14, the Moon will come the closest it has been to earth since January 1948. The supermoon, as the phenomenon is called, will see the Moon appear up to 14 percent bigger than an average full moon.

Skygazers were treated to a rare astronomical event yesterday when a swollen ?supermoon? and lunar eclipse combined for the first time in decades, showing Earth?s satellite bathed in blood-red light.

People rushed to take photos of the rare eclipse of the supermoon on September 27. NASA says that total eclipses of super full moons are rare and have only occured 5 times in the 1900s (1910, 1928, 1946, 1964 and 1982). The next Supermoon eclipse is due in another 18 years.

About the moon:

Rising over the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, Greece:

For the first time in decades, stargazers are in for the double spectacle of a swollen ?super moon? bathed in the blood-red light of a total eclipse on Sept. 28.