On the night of July 14, a supermoon was observed in the Chelyabinsk region. The moon approached the Earth at its minimum distance in 2022 and turned red.
– Supermoon is not an astronomical term, but a folk one. This night the moon will be quite bright and large. If the weather permits, it will be possible to see it,” Andrey Nikiforov, an employee of the Big Novosibirsk Planetarium, told our colleagues from NGS.RU. — The event itself marks the fact that the Moon passes the minimum distance from the Earth this year. it 357,264 kilometers.