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The Super Blood Moon is an astronomical event that combines two phenomena: a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse, resulting in a larger, brighter, and reddish-colored Moon. A total lunar eclipse takes place when the Earth aligns between the Sun and the Moon, causing Earth’s shadow to fall on the Moon.
Hunter's moon, the first full moon after the harvest moon; Xquic, a mythological Mayan heroine sometimes glossed as "Blood Moon" or "Blood Girl/Maiden" in English; Blood Moon (eclipse), a popular term to describe the reddish color of the moon during the total lunar eclipse
What is a blood moon? During a lunar eclipse, the Earth’s shadow partially blocks the sun’s light from reaching the moon, giving it a reddish appearance often referred to as a blood moon .
Because the Moon was near its perigee on January 21, it can be described as a "supermoon". [3] As this supermoon was also a wolf moon (the first full moon in a calendar year), it was referred to as a "super blood wolf moon"; blood refers to the typical red color of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse. [4]
March 14: Total lunar eclipse and Blood Moon. A total lunar eclipse will occur March 14, the first of two in 2025 but the only one that will be visible in North America.
When the moon is within the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, called the umbra, it takes on a reddish hue, which has led to the nickname “blood moon” for a lunar eclipse, according to NASA.
The blood moon prophecies were a series of prophecies by Christian preachers John Hagee and Mark Biltz, related to a series of four full moons in 2014 and 2015.The prophecies stated that a tetrad (a series of four consecutive lunar eclipses—all total and coinciding on Jewish holidays—with six full moons in between, and no intervening partial lunar eclipses) which began with the April 2014 ...
This year's Harvest Moon will be a Super Harvest Blood Moon. It is the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox and coincides with the moon’s perigee, when the moon is closest to the Earth, making ...