Stargazers across the UK will be treated to the last Supermoon of the year this week.
Dazzling in the night sky, it will be the final Supermoon of 2021 and will be visible on Thursday, June 24.
This particular moon is known as the Strawberry Moon and will appear bigger and brighter than usual in the sky.
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According to the Royal Greenwich Observatory, the Moon will reach its absolute peak brightness at 7:39pm BST on June 24.
The best views for people in the UK will roughly be at 9:30pm, when the Moon has completely risen.
The advice is to cast your gaze towards the southeast and you will spot the glorious strawberry disk in the sky.
According to the latest forecasts, visibility between 9pm and 10pm should be good. But if the weather decides to play up in your area, don't despair, as either just before or after June 24, the Moon will still appear bigger than normal to the naked eye.
By using a telescope, you will be able to see that a slight sliver of the Moon is still hiding behind Earth's shadow.
On average, the Moon is 238,000 miles from Earth, but during a supermoon the distance can be 221,000 miles away from our planet.
There has been much speculation among astronomers as to whether the Strawberry Moon constitutes a Supermoon, with NASA suggesting this one may be slightly too far away.
The space agency said: "Different publications use slightly different thresholds for deciding when a full Moon is close enough to the Earth to qualify as a supermoon.
"For 2021, some publications consider this full Moon the last of a series of four supermoons (from March to June).
"Other publications do not consider this a Supermoon, as it is farther from Earth (and smaller in apparent size and brightness) than the previous three full Moons."
According to Time & Date, we will have to wait a year until the next one which takes place on June 14, 2022.
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