The only total lunar eclipse of the year illuminates the sky tomorrow night, when the full moon passes through the Earth’s shadow during the so-called Super Blood Moon, as the face of the moon will turn a brick red color.
Here is information about this unique astronomical event, including answers to 6 of the questions presented by the Phys.org report.
What are the types of eclipses?
The fiery flare is the most dramatic of the three types of lunar eclipses:
1- Penumbral eclipse, which means that the moon begins to enter the region of the earth’s shadow (penumbra), so its light begins to diminish without being diminished, and the semi-shadow region is where some of the sun’s light is blocked by the moon because of the earth.
2- Partial eclipse, when the moon begins entering the earth’s shadow region (umbra), then the partial eclipse begins, and the earth’s shadow region is the area in which the sun is completely obscured by the earth.
3- A complete eclipse occurs when the sun, earth and moon line up perfectly in one line, completing the moon’s entry into the earth’s shadow region.
What is a giant moon?
The moon revolves around our planet in an elliptical orbit, and every month the moon passes through the point closest to the earth and the point farthest from the earth, and when the moon is at its closest point to or near the earth at the same time that it completes;
It is called the "giant moon".
During this event, because the full moon is slightly closer to us than usual, it appears especially large and bright in the sky.
What is a lunar eclipse?
A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun and the moon occupy specific opposite locations on either side of the earth, and during this positioning the earth blocks some sunlight from reaching the full moon, and our atmosphere filters the light as it passes, softening the edge of our planet's shadow and giving the moon a dark pink glow.
Observers around the world can see the giant moon all night if the sky is clear (NASA)
How can I see a giant lunar eclipse?
Observers around the world can see the giant moon all night if the sky is clear, and like all full moons, the giant moon rises in the east at sunset and sets in the west with sunrise, and is at its highest level in the late night and early morning hours .
As for the lunar eclipse, watching it is more difficult, the total eclipse will last for about 15 minutes, so if the moon is visible in your area while this is happening, you are lucky!
The total lunar eclipse will be visible near the set of the moon in the United States and Canada, all of Mexico, most of Central America and Ecuador, western Peru, southern Chile and Argentina, while along the Asian Pacific Rim, the total eclipse will be visible immediately after the moon’s height.
While the partial eclipse is visible from the eastern United States and Canada just before sunset in the morning, and from India, Nepal, western China, Mongolia and eastern Russia immediately after the moon rises in the evening, observers in eastern Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands - including Hawaii - are witnessing the two total eclipses. And micro together.
If a giant lunar eclipse isn't visible from your location, you can still explore this phenomenon second by second using NASA's Science Photography Studio.
3 moon phenomena: gigantic moon, blue moon, and total lunar eclipse (shutterstock)
Why does the moon turn red during a lunar eclipse?
Colors are one of the ways our brains interpret differences in the physical properties of light.
These same properties make each color of light behave differently when passing through a substance such as air, and our view of a blue sky or a fiery glowing sunset is one example of this.
Sunlight is refracted and scattered as it passes through Earth's atmosphere, and in the air the colors in the blue and violet end of a rainbow spread over a wider range of colors like red and orange.
Because of this, the widely scattered blue light floods the sky when the sun is bright on clear days, while the red light travels in a more straight path through the air, and we see it spread throughout the sky around sunrise and sunset only, when the sunlight travels across a slide. Thicker than Earth's atmosphere before it reaches our eyes.
During a lunar eclipse, some of the morning and evening light - heavily filtered - passes through the Earth's atmosphere and eventually reaches the surface of the moon, being dimly lit by the orange-red light remaining from sunset and sunrise from around the world at that time, and the more dust or clouds In Earth's atmosphere during an eclipse the moon appeared redder.
Is every giant moon red?
Does every lunar eclipse make it a giant?
The answer is "no" to both questions;
The gigantic moon and lunar eclipse are two different phenomena that don't always happen at the same time, but this month gives us an excellent opportunity to enjoy the view.