The Moon is currently passing through Earth’s shadow, known as its umbra. While direct sunlight may be blocked out by this phenomenon, our atmosphere scatters red light that produces an amber-hued hue on its surface that gives off a coppery-red tinge to give a coppery-red radiance for our nearest neighboring body of water. This will […]
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Tonight will mark a “super blood moon”, with its appearance being of dusky red hue due to being full Moon at perigee (its closest point from Earth in its orbit). Skywatchers with clear skies should be able to spot it well before dawn on Monday. Definition A super blood moon occurs when the Moon reaches
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Early Wednesday morning, the Moon suddenly lit up red like an extravagant rosebud in the predawn sky for an extended period – an unprecedented celestial event known as a super blood moon eclipse. Lunar eclipses begin when the Moon enters Earth’s outer shadow, the penumbra, before moving further inward and entering its darker umbra. What
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Today’s lunar eclipse will give rise to what some are calling a “blood moon.” Actually it is just a lunar eclipse. Lunar eclipses occur whenever Earth passes between the sun and moon and casts its shadow onto it, or when there is a total lunar eclipse with a supermoon. A blood moon occurs when this
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This week will see the Moon turn red during a lunar eclipse – known as a Blood Moon and unrelated to any strange prophecies or predictions. Today marks one of four total lunar eclipses within two years – an astronomical phenomenon known as a lunar tetrad – occurring over that period. May and October eclipses
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