If you were awake early enough, you may have caught the moon turning red on Wednesday morning.
A “super blue blood moon” was visible in B.C. just before 5 a.m. It was the first lunar eclipse of the year.
So, why was it red?
In a lunar eclipse there is a sun-Earth-moon alignment, during which the Earth refracts, or bends, light from the sun — which means blue light is scattered and only red is left.
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