Photos: Supermoon 2016

The moon hangs in the background as an illuminated wooden boat makes its way down the Tonlé Sap river for a race in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

A full moon illuminates Rome’s skyline.

Statues on the Almudena Cathedral are silhouetted against a supermoon in Madrid, Spain.

The supermoon beams above the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro.

A nearly full moon rises above the Valley of the Gods near Mexican Hat, Utah. November will see the largest full moon since 1948, also known as the ‘supermoon,’ when the moon reaches its closest point to Earth.

A commerical jet flies in front of the moon on its approach to Heathrow airport in London.

The supermoon is seen behind the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft set on the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The moon rises beyond the Arch in St. Louis as seen from the Compton Hill Water Tower.

The moon rises behind a neon sign in Sacramento.

An American Airlines passenger plane passes in front of the moon, as seen from Whittier.

View of the church of Our Lady of Conception, with the moon during the brighter full moon phenomenon, when the moon will be closest to the earth since the past 70 years, in Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Northern of Portugal.

The moon rises behind the castle of Almodovar in Cordoba, southern Spain.

A nearly full moon rises over a grave marker in a cemetery in Wilmette, Ill.

The moon rises beyond flags atop Fraser Hall on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kan.

The moon is seen in its waxing gibbous stage behind the head of the Christopher Columbus statue at Columbus Circle in New York.

The moon is seen behind the Prussian eagle on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

A man stands on a balcony of a building of Madrid as the moon rises in background,

An extra-super super moon rises over El Segundo early Sunday evening. Tonight’s full moon appears bigger and brighter in the night sky than it has in nearly 70 years.

The moon rises beyond the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kan.