What is a ‘blood moon’? Why is it red? Key questions answered approximately the latest lunar phenomenon
What is a ‘blood moon’?The term is scoffed at by astronomers,but it has come to mean the combination of a super moon – when the moon’s orbit is closest to the soil and appears up to 8% bigger – and a full lunar eclipse, when the soils shadow obscures the moon. On Sunday night it resulted in spectacular views of a coppery disc in the sky. “Blood moon” is not a scientific term. It began to be used in connection with Biblical prophesies, and but has come to be used to describe the reddish hue seen on a super moon during a lunar eclipse. To astronomers,the event was a “super moon, harvest moon, and tetrad,lunar eclipse”. Continue reading...
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