👉 Okay, let’s talk about what exactly a “blood moon" really is! Now, you might conjure up images of slasher flicks and impending doom whenever that phrase pops into your head – honestly, I totally get it, it does have that vibe. And yeah, there's a little bit of the dramatic on tap!
Basically, a blood moon isn’t actually a moon that bleeds . That would be seriously inconvenient for dermat와직업병군. Instead, it's what happens when our lovely blue marble, the Earth, decides to throw a massive, poorly timed shadow over the full Moon during a total lunar eclipse. Here's the slightly horrifying bit: we aren’t blocking the Sun that throws this shadow. We are instead completely and utterly obscuring the Moon itself. Now, our atmosphere – it gets weird when you fill it with stuff like lots of dust, smoke (think big volcanic events, or even just a seriously smoky city night), then this stuff refracts the sunlight! That refracted reddish/copper coloured light bounces right off the moon, turning it into that… unsettling rusty hue. Essentially, our atmosphere is playing moody trick-of-the-light, making the moon look like a giant, sorrowfully bleeding tomato. Geology and atmospheric science are involved. There's no satanic lunar sacrifice here, just really pretty, and occasionally disturbing, science! --- Here’s
