The moon rises with an orange glow as people watch from a rock cliff at Bondi Beach in Sydney. The supermoon, known to scientists as a perigee moon, occurs when Earth’s neighbor appears at its largest and brightest compared with other full moons. (Rick Rycroft / Associated Press)
A spectator shoots a photo of the supermoon with his cellphone camera from the top of Skinner Butte in Eugene, Ore. (Chris Pietsch / Associated Press)
The moon rises over Lake Ontario as people walk along the shore in Kingston, Canada. (Lars Hagberg / Associated Press)
The full moon silhouettes the statue of the Virgin Mary on top of the University of Notre Dame’s golden dome in South Bend, Ind. (Robert Franklin / Associated Press)
The moon rises over a downtown office building in Springfield, Ill. (Seth Perlman / Associated Press)
The full moon is seen behind a cross on a church in Minsk, Belarus (Maxim Malinovsky / AFP/Getty Images)
The moon is glimpsed through the London Eye ferris wheel over Whitehall in London. (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)
A couple sits on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River as the moon rises in the distance. (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press)
The moon rises behind the Smolny Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Dmitry Lovetsky / Associated Press)
