The sturgeon moon will also be a blue moon, but yet, it will actually appear red like a ball of fire lighting the night sky. So, we’re in for a blue-red-sturgeon-supermoon this month.

The Strawberry Moon will be fullest early Wednesday, but the evening before will be the best time to see the last full Moon ...

The tiny ash particles — about one micron in size — acted as a filter, scattering red light and turning the moon a distinct blue-green hue. According to NASA Science, other volcanic eruptions ...

The moon appeared to turn red as Earth passed directly between it ... Shorter wavelengths of the color spectrum, like blue, scatter easily when they hit the atmosphere. That's why a vast sky ...

When the moon is higher up, it is viewed through less air, and that blue light is scattered less. The same happens with the sun every day: When it rises and sets, it takes on red and orange colors.

Because smoke scatters blue light more than red, the remaining red wavelengths dominate, giving the moon a deeper, reddish tint as it rises. Low full moon and lunar standstill Every full moon ...

Well, it's a marvelous night for a moon glance. Van Morrison and ... The next seasonal blue supermoon, that may look red, won't happen until 2032. After all, you know, this kind of thing only ...

As the moon enters Earth's umbra, sunlight is blocked. However, sunlight bends through Earth's atmosphere, filtering out blue light and allowing red and orange hues to reach the moon. This is the ...

Per NASA, the color of the so-called "Blood Moon" is caused by the same phenomenon that makes our sky blue and our sunsets red: Rayleigh scattering. Earth's atmosphere scatters away shorter ...

It’s one of my favorite applications of physics that I teach in the classroom. Scattering explains why the skies are blue, why sunsets are red, and why the moon turns red during a lunar eclipse." ...