Wednesday’s Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon, in Photos
by Joseph Stromberg - Vox
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Early Wednesday morning — starting at 5:15 am Eastern time — there was a total eclipse of the moon, often called a “blood moon.”
After slowly shrinking to a sliver (because Earth blocked most sunlight from hitting it), the moon glowed bright red, due to the fact that the small amount of light reaching it was first filtered through the Earth’s atmosphere.
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