Look up Sunday night to see a total lunar eclipse, which will color the moon from its usual white to a rusty red, known as a blood moon.
A total lunar eclipse takes place when the earth passes directly between the sun and the moon, casting the earth’s shadow onto the moon, said Angela Speck, professor of astrophysics and the chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
“That’s one of the reasons we’ve known the earth is round for a really long time,” Speck said. “But as the moon gets completely eclipsed, we see it’s basically the light that is passing through the earth’s atmosphere.” “You’re only seeing the sunlight that’s going to the edges of the earth,” she said. “Most of the solid earth is in the way of the light … so you’re basically seeing the light of gray every sunset and sunrise on the planet, reflected off the moon.”
While a solar eclipse, such as the partial one San Antonio saw in 2017 or the total one that parts of San Antonio could see in 2024, cannot be stared at directly due to the strength of the sun’s rays , lunar eclipses are safe to look at directly since they are a reflection of the sun’s light.
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