A cotton candy vendor walks in front of the supermoon during the Los Angeles Angels' baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The rare phenomenon sees the Moon appear substantially larger than normal as it reaches its closest point to the earth. Known to astronomers as a perigee full moon, it appears 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than one at its further point away from our planet.
People ride the Luna Park Swing Ride as the supermoon rises on Coney Island, USA.
The moon is seen in its waxing gibbous stage as it rises behind the helicopter from the original Batman television show, which people can ride at the New Jersey State Fair, USA.
The supermoon rises next to the Los Angeles Angels' baseball team's Big A sign.
The supermoon rises in Alabama, USA. A supermoon occurs when the full Moon reaches its closest point to earth.
A supermoon rises beside the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, USA.
A statue of the Angel Moroni on top a Latter-Day Saints Temple, Kansas, USA, is silhouetted against the rising moon.
The full moon rises behind a face of the of Motherland Monument in Kiev, Ukraine.
A woman has a ringside seat as she watches the supermoon rise into the night sky in New Jersey, USA.
