ByJamie Carter,
Senior Contributor.
The biggest and brightest full moon of 2025 — and since 2019 — rose during dusk on Wednesday, Nov. 5, captivating skywatchers across the planet. The next one isn't until early December, but North America has one more chance to catch it as it rises during dusk on Thursday, Nov. 6.
This beaver moon wasn’t just any full moon — it was a supermoon, and not just any supermoon. At 221,818 miles (356,980 kilometers)from Earth, it was the closest full moon since February 2019.
Known as a supermoon because it occurs near perigee — the moon’s closest point to Earth in its slightly elliptical orbit — this event made the moon disk appear about 14% larger and 30% brighter than a micromoon, which happens at the farthest point in orbit.
