This Morning’s Much-Hyped Supermoon? Not So Super

Earth’s shadow begins to obscure the view of a so-called Supermoon during a total lunar eclipse above Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015. Supermoon, or perigee moon, is the name given when the full or new moon comes closest to the Earth making it appear bigger. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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You may have heard there’s something special in the skies this morning. It’s the supermoon, so called because it’s a full moon at the closest point in its orbit to Earth.

But astronomically, it turns out the super moon isn’t really a big deal. Tellus Science Center Astronomer David Dundee calls it “an astronomical non-event.”