A Super Blood Moon AND A Total Lunar Eclipse: 2019 Starts With A Rare Cosmic Event.
A Super Blood Moon AND A Total Lunar Eclipse: 2019 Starts With A Rare Cosmic Event This is a rare and special event, as the next Super Blood Moon won’t be until Jan. 31, 2037, and this is the last total lunar eclipse to grace Earth’s sky until May 26, 2021. This upcoming January 21, things kick off with a bang. 2019 will have an incredible start, thanks to this rare celestial event. A Super Blood Moon is when a total lunar eclipse, also known as a Blood Moon, coincides with a Super Moon. A total lunar eclipse takes place when the Moon passes directly through the Earth’s umbra (full shadow). As the Moon has an irregular orbit, this does not happen often. It is known as a Blood Moon due to the eerie red hue which hits the Moon’s surface. The red colour comes from light being refracted through the Earth’s atmosphere and bending around to hit the Moon. How intense the red colour depends on the levels of dust in the atmosphere, and the atomospheric dust blocks other hues whilst allowing t...