When the moon hits your eye Wednesday, that's not amore — that's the Beaver supermoon.

The year's brightest supermoon — and the closest to Earth the moon has been since 2019 — will be at its peak illumination early Wednesday morning, at 6:19 a.m. Mountain Standard Time, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.

A supermoon is a full moon that occurs at the perigee — the point at which the moon is at the closest point to the Earth in its orbit, about 226,000 miles away from Earth. That coincidence makes the moon appear bigger and brighter.

According to NASA, supermoons can look 14% bigger and up to 30% brighter, depending on exactly how close it is to the planet. This year, there was a supermoon in October and there will be another in December.

The November full moon is sometimes known as

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