Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse

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How and why does a blood moon occur? That was my first question I thought to myself when we looked into the night sky at the big red orb. Some other questions that popped into my head when we stared at the moon were; why is the moon all of a sudden red, how do scientist calculate when the next lunar eclipse will come again and what’s the difference between a solar and lunar eclipse. All these questions resonated in my thoughts and by my astronomy knowledge and research I am now able to answer all those questions.
How and why does a blood moon occur? First off, we must figure out what a blood moon is. I found out that a blood moon is basically just a lunar eclipse. This means that when the moon passes earth at a certain point, which I found out was called the umbra or earth’s shadow, the sun’s light reflects off earth and creates a dark shadow or in our case, blood moon lunar eclipse. So, why does a blood moon occur? A blood moon occurs just like any other lunar eclipse, when the moon passes through the Earth’s umbra but because earth’s atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, only red lig...

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