Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. It was the third so-called supermoon of 2023, but the largest of the year. A supermoon is said to occur when a full moon happens ...

The super moon, and the ancient comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, dubbed the "comet of the century", have crossed path over the clouded sky of the Canary Islands on Thursday (October 17).

At that moment, his husband pointed out something just as remarkable in the opposite direction — the radiant glow of a supermoon. “It was magnificent,” he said. “So bright and so large!