Supermoon dazzles global audience
BEIJING — The brightest moon in almost 69 years is lighting up the sky in a treat for star watchers around the globe.
Across the international dateline in New Zealand, it was to reach its brightest after midnight Tuesday local time.
NASA says its closest approach occurred at 3:21 a.m. PST Monday when the moon came within 221,523 miles.
Astronomers call it a “perigean moon,” but nearly 40 years ago an astrologer in Tempe, Ariz., Richard Nolle dubbed it a “supermoon,” and the term stuck.