Supermoon! Red blood lunar eclipse! It's all happening at once, but what does that mean?
- Written by Shannon Schmoll, Director, Abrams Planetarium, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
A red blood moon is caused by sunlight passing through the Earth's atmosphere. U.S. Navy/Joshua Valcarcel/WikimediaCommonsThe first lunar eclipse of 2021 is going to happen during the early hours of May 26. But this is going to be an especially super lunar event, as it will be a supermoon, a lunar eclipse and a red blood moon all at once. So what...
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