Pictures: Strawberry moon from all over the world

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This beautiful picture shows people at Glastonbury watching the strawberry moon on Monday night.

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It was extra special because the strawberry moon happened on summer solstice - the longest day of the year.

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A strawberry moon is caused when the light of a full moon shines through warmer air, which happens at this time of year. Here it is rising over the poppy fields in Norwich.

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A strawberry moon happening at the same time as the summer solstice is a rare event. It last happened nearly 50 years ago in 1967. Here it is rising behind Mount Baker, a mountain in the US visible from Canada.

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A night-time walker on Zuma Beach pretends to hold the strawberry moon in Malibu in the US state of California.

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This is the strawberry moon rising in Portknockie, a coastal village on the Moray Firth in Scotland.

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Here it is peeking through clouds in Vancouver, Canada. The photo was taken from the Lions Gate Bridge.

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In Jacobsdorf, near Frankfurt in Germany, a bird sings to the strawberry moon.