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THE MOON ascends in the sky behind the dome of the Wisconsin state Capitol as seen from the campus of UW-Madison in Madison on Monday. The phenomenon known as the supermoon occurs because the moon follows an elliptical orbit around the Earth. This week, the moon is coming closer to the Earth than at any time since January 1948.
THE MOON ascends in the sky behind the dome of the Wisconsin state Capitol as seen from the campus of UW-Madison in Madison on Monday. The phenomenon known as the supermoon occurs because the moon follows an elliptical orbit around the Earth. This week, the moon is coming closer to the Earth than at any time since January 1948.

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