Giant blood moon .. amazing pictures that take your breath away
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Australians were lucky enough to see the giant blood moon on Wednesday evening, a rare astronomical event characterized by a dazzling array of shades of red and burnt orange.
From Brazil to Alaska, California to Indonesia, people with a correct view of the celestial phenomenon were amazed when the moon, usually pale and resembling Swiss cheese in the sky, turned into a ferocious red giant, writer Livia Alpek Ribka described in the New York Times.
The spectacular display was the result of two simultaneous phenomena: a giant moon (when the moon lines up closer than usual to our planet and appears to be larger than usual), plus a total lunar eclipse, or a blood moon (when the moon sits directly in Earth's shadow and hits it by filtering light through Earth's atmosphere). .
"A little bit of sunlight comes out from the Earth's atmosphere and this creates the effect of showing the sunrise and sunset on the moon," said Brad Tucker, a resident astrophysicist and cosmologist at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Dr. Tucker added that depending on the amount of dust, clouds and pollution in the atmosphere, the moon looks orange-pink, burnt red, or even brown in color, and you don't need a telescope to see it.
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Giant blood moon