A supermoon rose over the skies in Asia and Europe on Sunday, photographers captured the biggest and brightest full moon of the year in striking images from around the world. A live stream of the event was scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. EST Sunday courtesy of SLOOH.

The NASA Gooddard Space Flight Center compiled stunning photographs of the Supermoon June 23 2013 on its Flickr page captured by photographers all over the world. Watch dozens of high resolution images of the Supermoon on Nasa Gooddard Space Flight Flickr Page.

The Supermoon occurs when the moon is the biggest and the brightest of the year because it will be closer to the Earth than at any other time. A live stream of the extraordinary event will be broadcasting at the SLOOH Space Camera website (www.slooh.com) located at the Canary Islands.

SLOOH will offer viewers of it's live stream a live chat with astronomer Bob Berman and the SLOOH team and different angles of the Supermoon as well as close-up looks that the surface of the moon.

"It doesn't matter where you are, the full moon you're seeing will be the biggest for 2013," Michelle Thaller, the assistant director of science at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center said. "... That 12 percent size different can mean as much as a 30 percent change in the brightness, so this will be a particularly bright Supermoon."

According to NASA, June 2013's Supermoon will be up to 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than a typical Full Moon is because the moon will reach its perigree or the closest point to the Earth of its orbit.

In terms of distance, the Moon will be at nearly 222,000 miles away from the Earth compared to the 252, 581 miles away that it is at its furthest distance from the planet (apogee.)The moon is expected to move fast and be at the farthest point to Earth on July 7, only two weeks from now.

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