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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.

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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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