A pink supermoon will be visible in the night skies of the UAE until April 29.
The stunning astronomical event first became visible on April 27, appearing 7 per cent bigger and 14 per cent brighter than a regular full moon.
The rare occurrence was photographed around the world.
"In the month of April, there is a full moon that will be a supermoon. It won't be the biggest one, but it is close to the Earth, so it will be clearly observable," said Hasan Al Hariri, chief executive of Dubai Astronomy Group.
"The Moon also marks the middle of the Ramadan month."
While, the phenomenon is called a pink supermoon, the colour does not have much relation to the event.
It was given that name in the 1930s because the "pink moon" appears in springtime when flowers are in bloom.
"In the 1930s, the Maine Farmer's Almanac began publishing American Indian Moon names for the months of the year," said US space agency Nasa.
“According to this almanac, as the full moon is in April, this is the pink moon, named after the herb moss pink, also known as creeping phlox, moss phlox, or mountain phlox.
"The plant is native to the eastern United States and is one of the earliest widespread flowers of spring.”
"There is nothing that will turn pink," Mr Al Hariri said.
"There are moons that have been named as the 'blood moon', 'worm moon' or 'war moon' – there are plenty of names.
"In our region, Arabs used to give names to the Moon according to the position of the Moon."
The next and last supermoon of the year will appear on May 26 and will be closer to the Earth than this one.
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Some of Darwish's last words
"They see their tomorrows slipping out of their reach. And though it seems to them that everything outside this reality is heaven, yet they do not want to go to that heaven. They stay, because they are afflicted with hope." - Mahmoud Darwish, to attendees of the Palestine Festival of Literature, 2008
His life in brief: Born in a village near Galilee, he lived in exile for most of his life and started writing poetry after high school. He was arrested several times by Israel for what were deemed to be inciteful poems. Most of his work focused on the love and yearning for his homeland, and he was regarded the Palestinian poet of resistance. Over the course of his life, he published more than 30 poetry collections and books of prose, with his work translated into more than 20 languages. Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers, most significantly Marcel Khalife. Darwish died on August 9, 2008 after undergoing heart surgery in the United States. He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour.
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