A supermoon rises over a highway near Yangon, Myanmar on December 3, 2017. Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images

Keep your eyes high in the sky this week to see the last supermoon of the year.

December’s full supermoon, also called the cold moon, will be at its fullest around 6:14 p.m. ET Thursday, according to EarthSky .

“On Thursday, the moon will rise right around sunset time, and that’s why it’s full, because it’s exactly opposite in the sky from where the sun is,” said Noah Petro, project scientist for NASA’s Artemis III mission, which aims to land astronauts near the lunar south pole in 2027.

The moon also will appear full on Wednesday and Friday nights.

This will be the last of three back-to-back supermoons this year. A supermoon happens when the moon reaches perigee, or its neares

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