• Question: why do we have a blood moon? how often does it happen? what even happens when we have a blood moon?

    Asked by Go Science to Simon, Julia, Delma, Andrew, Alex on 13 Dec 2015.
    • Photo: Andrew Winnard

      Andrew Winnard answered on 13 Dec 2015:

      Hi Leah!

      Here is a video that explains why the Moon appears to go red during a lunar eclipse 🙂 It is all to do with the light bending as it goes through the Earths atmosphere while the Moon is eclipsed

      PS: The astro support team will start getting evicted this week from Tuesday! If you like my replies where I try to include videos for you then please vote for me – and check out the videos I made myself specially for you guys this weekend on my profile page! 😀

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