Here’s why and how the moon can look yellow, orange or red without an eclipse and when Friday's total lunar eclipse blood moon will reach totality.

Longer wavelengths materialize on Earth when sunlight hits from more of a perpendicular ... The full moon takes on several shades of red, orange and yellow when it's nearer the outer edges of ...

The moon is red during the totality phase of a total lunar eclipse for the same reason sunsets are orange. Sunlight is made up of many colors, each with a different wavelength. Light toward the ...