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Images of the Super Worm Moon as Seen Around the World

The full moon rises behind the Church of our Lady in Munich, Germany, Sunday, March 28, 2021. The March full moon in March is called the "Worm Moon." (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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The full moon rises behind the Church of our Lady in Munich, Germany, Sunday, March 28, 2021. The March full moon in March is called the "Worm Moon." (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Sunday brought us the first supermoon of 2021, a year that packs four supermoons. Photos from around the world show the moon's large presence.

Although not all consider the moon a supermoon, since it missed perigee by about 35 hours, according to Space.com. Perigee is the point when the moon is closest to Earth.

"Different publications use slightly different thresholds for deciding when a full moon is close enough to the Earth to qualify as a supermoon," NASA reported earlier this month.

Either way, the moon was larger than average, and Monday's moon will be large as well. But April, May and June will all feature full moons that are closer, and thus appearing larger, with the full moon of May being the closest of 2021, according to USAToday.

March's full moon is called the Worm Moon. The Maine Farmer's Almanac began publishing American Indian moon names for each month of the year in the 1930s. Different region's tribes had different names for each month's moon, and the March moon has been known as the Crow Moon, the Crust Moon, the Sugar Moon, the Sap Moon and the Worm Moon. All of the names have to do with changes in the seasons in the region, and the southern tribes called the March full moon the "Worm Moon," after the earthworm casts that appear as the ground thaws in spring, according to NASA.

Click through the slideshow above to see how the world viewed the Super Worm Moon.

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