pictures of the super-moon

A supermoon rises behind the roof of the Sydney Opera House. (REUTERS/David Gray)

The full moon descends behind the Nossa Senhora da Penha Church in Rio de Janeiro. (AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA)

The supermoon rises behind the cathedral in Mdina, Malta’s ancient capital city, in the centre of the island. (REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi)

A supermoon rises over Tower Bridge in London. (REUTERS/Paul Hacket)

The full moon peeks through trees in a wood near Rasing, Austria. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

An aircraft flies past the moon as it appears above the Colosseum, in Rome. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

The supermoon is seen behind a ferris wheel in Tokyo. (REUTERS/Toru Hanai)

The statue of a man and a boy, a monument dedicated to forest rangers, is silhouetted against the supermoon as it rises at the Sierra de las Nieves (Mountain range of Snows) nature park and biosphere reserve between El Burgo and Ronda, near Malaga, southern Spain. (REUTERS/Jon Nazca)

The supermoon rises over the stars of Moscow’s Kremlin towers. (REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov)

Birds fly past as a supermoon rises in the sky in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)

A supermoon rises above a Jesus Christ statue in front of the Holy Cross church in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)