SMALLEST FULL MOON OF THE YEAR: Last night’s full Moon was the smallest of the year, as much as 14% smaller and 30% dimmer than other full Moons of 2014. But could you tell the difference? When the Moon is high in the sky with no reference points nearby, a big Moon and a small Moon look much the same. To set the scale of the phenomenon, Karzaman Ahmad of the Langkawi National Observatory in Maylasia photographed last night’s Moon and placed it alongside a photo of the largest Moon from 2013:

“It really was smaller!” he says.