The Solstice and the Supermoon

—

by

Trent
in

The Solstice and the Supermoon

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/06/the-solstice-and-the-supermoon/100540/

This was a weekend of the Sun and Moon — a coincidence of the summer solstice and the “Supermoon”. Friday was the summer solstice (in the northern hemisphere), welcomed by humans for thousands of years as the longest day of the year