'Supermoon' provides rare spectacle for 7 billion people (Includes first-hand account)

- Professional and amateur stargazers gathered in empty spaces around the globe to watch the moon light up the sky Saturday night. The Earth's guardian appeared approximately 14 percent bigger and more than 30 percent brighter.

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The moon is the fifth largest satellite in the solar system and has been labelled by ancient civilizations as Earth’s protector, or guardian if you will. Its origins haven’t conclusively been identified, but there are several theories and even those cannot hold ground because of many aspects that contradict them.

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'Supermoon' provides rare spectacle for 7 billion people (Includes first-hand account)