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Supermoon! Red blood lunar eclipse! It’s all happening at once, but what does that mean? – The Conversation US
In the early morning of May 26, 2021, there will be a super blood-red lunar eclipse. The show will be spectacular and can all be explained by the orbits of the…
The 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 does this all mean?
The Moon appears 12% bigger when it is closest to Earth compared with its appearance when its farthest away.Tomruen/WikimediaCommons, CC BY-SA
Whats a super moon?
A supermoon occurs when a full or new moon coincides with the Moons closest approach to the…
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