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A total lunar eclipse, or blood moon, will happen overnight on July 27. The eclipse will be colored orange-red due to sunlight passing through Earth 's atmosphere and bouncing off the moon.
Hunter's moon, the first full moon after the harvest moon; Xquic, a mythological Mayan heroine sometimes glossed as "Blood Moon" or "Blood Girl/Maiden" in English; Blood Moon (eclipse), a popular term to describe the reddish color of the moon during the total lunar eclipse
Certain lunar eclipses have been referred to as "blood moons" in popular articles but this is not a scientifically recognized term. [24] This term has been given two separate, but overlapping, meanings. The meaning usually relates to the reddish color a totally eclipsed Moon takes on to observers on Earth. [25]
When the moon is within the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, called the umbra, it takes on a reddish hue, which has led to the nickname “blood moon” for a lunar eclipse, according to NASA.
During a lunar eclipse, the Earth’s shadow partially blocks the sun’s light from reaching the moon, giving it a reddish appearance often referred to as a blood moon. On Tuesday night, in ...
Because the Moon was near its perigee on January 21, it can be described as a "supermoon". [3] As this supermoon was also a wolf moon (the first full moon in a calendar year), it was referred to as a "super blood wolf moon"; blood refers to the typical red color of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse. [4]
The upcoming event — known as the Full Beaver Blood Moon total lunar eclipse — will the ... causing the moon to take on a copper-red appearance. The color is why a total lunar eclipses are ...
The full moon of January 31, 2018 was the second full moon that calendar month (in most time zones), making it, under one definition of the term, a "blue moon". Additionally referencing the orange or red "blood" colors that occur during a lunar eclipse, media sources described the event as a "super blue blood Moon". [9]