This picture shows a Micro Moon layered on top of a Super Moon. The Micro Moon occured on January 15th and is the biggest full moon of 2014. The moon reached it's full moon phase just hours before it reached its lunar apogee (when the moon is most distant from the Earth in it's orbit.) The Super Moon behind the Micro Moon is from June 22nd when the moon was at perigee. The distance between apogee and perigee is 50,000 km. The next Micro Moon is projected to occur on March 5, 2015. I think it's really cool how they compared the Micro Moon and Super Moon by layering them because it helps show how small and big the moon gets.
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