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Explained: Why Will This Week’s ‘Blood Moon’ Look Red? Because The Sky Is Blue – Forbes
The physics behind May 26’s reddish-orange-copper “Super Flower Blood Moon Eclipse” at night is the same that makes the daytime sky blue.

Super blue blood moon timeline collection. Captured in Bangkok composed of several photos depicting
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In the early hours of May 26, 2021 the western U.S. will see a full Flower Moon turn a reddish color for precisely 14 minutes and 30 seconds as our satellite briefly glides through the edge of Earths dark shadow in space.
Its called a Blood Moon, but that colloquial name for a total lunar eclipse is both of questionable quasi-religious origin and, more importantly, betrays the actual colors…
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