‘Supermoon’ Graces Metro Detroit Sky this Weekend
Very rare supermoon, a full moon at its closest point to Earth, appears at sunset this Sunday and Monday.
If you’ve been looking up at the sky recently, contemplating life and your place in it, or even if you have not, this weekend will be a good time to look to the heavens once again.
Around sunset on Sunday and Monday Metro Detroit will be greeted by the sight of something pretty unusual, a so-called “supermoon” much bigger and brighter than it typically appears from on Earth.
In fact the moon will be closer to our planet than it’s been in almost 70 years and closer than it will be again for another two decades.
The staff astronomer at the Michigan Science Center, Paulette Auchtung, tells WDET’s Quinn Klinefelter it’s very rare for a full moon to come this close to Earth.
