{"id":41696,"date":"2021-06-13T11:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T11:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=41696"},"modified":"2021-06-13T11:36:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T11:36:21","slug":"astronomy-what-causes-a-blood-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/astronomy-what-causes-a-blood-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy: what causes a blood moon?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about astronomy: the tutor mentions the cause of a &#8220;blood&#8221; moon.<\/h2>\n<p>\nAs I understand, a blood moon can only happen near the time of a lunar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe redness of a blood moon comes from the fact that the light reaching it has, to some extent, already travelled through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. My understanding is that red light passes through with less deflection, so when the Earth is partially in the way between the sun and moon, the sun&#8217;s light that reaches the moon is preferentially red. That same light reflects back, and we see a blood moon.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conchovalleyhomepage.com\/news\/what-causes-a-super-flower-blood-moon\/#:~:text=It's%20called%20a%20blood%20moon,two%20lunar%20eclipses%20in%202021.\">conchovalleyhomepage.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about astronomy: the tutor mentions the cause of a &#8220;blood&#8221; moon. As I understand, a blood moon can only happen near the time of a lunar eclipse. The redness of a blood moon comes from the fact that the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/astronomy-what-causes-a-blood-moon\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Astronomy: what causes a blood moon?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41697,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41696\/revisions\/41697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}