WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- The supermoon is making an encore, its last appearance before the moon's perigee -- the portion of its orbit closest to Earth -- and 2014 slowly fade away.
Of course, the supermoon and the moon aren't two different entities; they're one and the same. And the moon isn't going anywhere, it's just getting a bit smaller. During the moon's perigee, the celestial sphere is some 30,000 miles closer to Earth, making full moons during this period appear beautifully swollen in the night sky. The perigee, and the series of supermoons that arrive with it, won't return until 2015.