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The best time to view the full moon this month will be around dusk on Saturday, April 12. If you miss it on Saturday, the ...
The moon turns red only during a total lunar eclipse ... “some of the light coming straight across the atmosphere at sunset and sunrise gets bent and redirected into Earth’s shadow.” ...
That shadow isn’t perfect, so faint sunbeams sneak around the shadow’s edges on all sides in the colors of a sunset ... will cause the moon to appear orange or red — and the more clouds ...
Tyson also explained just how the moon turns the shade of red it does. "It's sunlight filtering through Earth's atmosphere leaking into our shadow and those are sunset colors on the moon," he ...
However, Earth's atmosphere bends part of the sunlight, a process similar to what happens during sunrise and sunset ... red and orange, manage to pass through the atmosphere and reach the Moon's ...
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