<h5>What exactly is a total lunar eclipse?</h5>  <p>A lunar eclipse happens when the sun, Earth, and moon form a straight line. When sunlight falls on the Earth, it casts a shadow. This shadow extends beyond the Earth's orbit to the orbit of the moon. When the moon enters the Earth's shadow while moving in its orbit, it becomes an eclipse moon.</p>
<p>A total lunar eclipse occurs when the entire moon passes through the darkest part of the Earth's shadow. In simple terms, the Earth blocks the sun’s light from lighting up the moon. The moon and the sun are on opposite sides of the Earth during a total lunar eclipse.</p>
<p>A unique feature of a total lunar eclipse is that the moon turns reddish in colour. Recently, on 8th November 2022, a total lunar eclipse was observed across the world.</p> <h5>Why does the moon appear red?</h5> <figure>
        <img src="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/newsahoot.appspot.com/o/images-from-this-weeks-lunar-eclipse%2F2.jpeg?alt=media&token=632008e1-6429-4cf8-b226-946d42b9f870" alt="Why does the moon appear red?" >
        <figcaption>A photo of the moon appearing red in colour. Photo by Dr. James O'Donoghue / Twitter.</figcaption>
      </figure> <p>The blood-red colour is caused by the refraction, filtering, and scattering of light by the atmosphere of the Earth. It is also the reason why we can see red sunrises and sunsets. You must know about VIBGYOR (Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and Red), the colours of the rainbow. Similarly, sunlight is also a mixture of these seven colours.</p>
<p>So, when the light from the sun collides with the gases of the Earth’s atmosphere, the blue light is filtered out. However, the red light is not. Some of the red light gets refracted, or bent, as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere and reaches the moon. This causes the moon to look red in colour.</p>
<p>In this year's total lunar eclipse, the moon also turned reddish. But, the recent total lunar eclipse is a special one.</p> <h5>What’s special about the recent total lunar eclipse?</h5> <figure>
        <img src="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/newsahoot.appspot.com/o/images-from-this-weeks-lunar-eclipse%2F3.jpeg?alt=media&token=7c8d8fde-8257-4ef7-88a7-d158d0c22552" alt="What’s special about the recent total lunar eclipse?" >
        <figcaption>A photograph of the moon at various stages throughout the night during the lunar eclipse. </figcaption>
      </figure> <p>One of nature's most beautiful sights is the view of the Earth's shadow moving across the moon’s surface before completely engulfing it and turning the moon reddish in colour. Photographers take a lot of photos of the moon when this event happens.</p>
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If you missed it, you must be wondering when you can see it again. There’s bad news. You will have to wait for three years to see the next one. The next total lunar eclipse will occur on 14th March 2025 (that’s a long wait!). This is what makes the recent total lunar eclipse a special one.</p> <h5>What did we learn from this article?</h5>  <p>We learned about the beauty of nature. We must also understand that a lunar eclipse is a natural event. There are many superstitions surrounding it, like not cooking or eating food during lunar eclipses, not stepping out of the house, etc. We must not pay any attention to such superstitions and instead enjoy the beauty of nature.</p>
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