Supermoon lights up night sky

The biggest and brighest full Moon of the year illuminated New Zealand skies last night. The so-called "supermoon", also known as a perigee moon, occurs when a full moon lines up with the Earth and the sun at a specific point in its orbit, called the lunar perigee. That's the point at which the moon is nearest to Earth as it traces its elliptical path around our planet. Nasa ...