Stargazers in North and South America will be able to start watching the red “Blood Moon” Thursday night since 2022.
The celestial events that can be observed in the naked eye will have more than an hour of overall length and can be seen in parts of Western Europe and Africa as well as in New Zealand.
The earth is between the moon and the sun, and when the shadow of the earth is thrown on the moon, a lunar eclipse occurs.
A rare lunar eclipse completely involves the Earth’s Monbra, the darkest part of the Earth’s shadow, covering the moon.
According to NASA, this solar eclipse can also be called a “blood moon” because the moon may turn red and orange during the overall process.
Coloring is due to the fact that sunlight spreads in the Earth’s atmosphere before it reaches the surface of the moon – shorter wavelengths such as blue and violet cannot reach the moon, leaving only longer wavelengths, such as red and orange, to illuminate it.
As a result, the more items in the Earth’s atmosphere, such as clouds or dust – during the moon, the moon will appear.
“Follow closely the weather forecasts that lead to the solar eclipse,” Renee Weber, chief scientist at NASA, said in a statement. “This overall will last for an hour, so you can still glimpse it even if the clouds disperse, even if it’s cloudy.”
The overall timing occurs simultaneously across time zones and is expected to start at 2:26 AM on Friday, Eastern Daytime and Thursday at 11:26 pm in Pacific Daylight Saving Time.
The moon will also be covered in part of the solar eclipse around an hour before and after the whole.
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