'Pink' supermoon set to appear in early April, marking the arrival of spring with the biggest and brightest lunar event of 2020

The biggest and brightest supermoon of the year is set to take place in April.

The pink supermoon, sometimes called a Paschal full moon, will take place on April 7, filling the night sky with a bright and luminous tribute to the spring season, the Daily Mail reports. 

The name comes from the Greek word for "passover," chosen because the pink supermoon is the first full moon to take place after the Spring Equinox, which occurred on March 20.

Even though it's called a pink supermoon, the moonlight won't actually be pink.

The "pink" label was chosen in part as a reference to a type of wildflower native to North America called "phlox subulata," which has a vivid pink hue and is a common sign of spring, according to a report in Newsweek.

A supermoon typically only occurs once a year, when a full moon coincides with the moon also being at the closest orbital point to Earth, called a perigee.

Compared to standard full moons, supermoons can appear between seven and 14 percent larger and up to 30 percent brighter.