On Saturday, May 5, photographers all around the world were presented with a bright, tempting target in the much anticipated "supermoon," which occurs when the moon's elliptical orbit brings it closer to the Earth while full. In other words, it's the largest the moon can look to us terrans, though whether or not our earthbound eyes can actually detect the difference is up for debate. Thankfully, cameras allow us to choose how we want to see and present the world, so here's a collection of photos that show the supermoon as it should be: massive. Check it out in our gallery below.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has given scientists a wealth of new detail about the structure of the moon, which the Goddard Space Flight Center has used to compile this new animated film, showing how the moon came to look the way we know it today.

The moon may be more or less dead on the inside, but that's not stopping some serious old-school rock 'n' roll from happening on its surface.

Earth has a nasty habit of recycling its surface such that old stuff (like dinosaur bones and meteor craters and ancient alien cities) get swallowed up by oceans and volcanoes or eroded into dust. The moon, however, hasn't been geologically active for a very long time, and if aliens ever stopped by our solar system, the moon might be the place to check for artifacts.