Look up at the Moon tonight—it’s the last full Moon of the year! 🌕 During a full Moon, the side of the lunar surface facing Earth is fully illuminated, making the Moon look like a big circle in the sky. The full Moon on Thursday, December 4 will also be a supermoon! What makes it so ‘super’? The Moon’s orbit isn’t perfectly circular; it’s slightly elliptical, so the Moon isn't always the exact same distance away from our planet. A supermoon occurs when the Moon is at the point in its orbit clos