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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
Amanda Morrow with RFI

Summer treat as year's largest supermoon is set to glow

A passenger plane, with a "supermoon" full moon behind it makes its final landing approach towards Heathrow Airport in London. REUTERS/Toby Melville

A Buck “supermoon” will grace the skies overnight Wednesday – the biggest one of the year – as our neighbour arrives arrives at its closest point to the Earth.

NASA says that when a full moon appears at the so-called perigee, in this case a distance of 357,264 kilometres away, it is larger than a regular full moon.

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