A rare super blood moon will be over the UK’s skies tonight as two rare lunar events coincide.
The event is a combination of a lunar eclipse and two more unusual occurrences – a ‘super moon’ and a ‘blood moon’.
A ‘blood moon’ is when the Moon appears to turn red during a total lunar eclipse. This happens the only light reaching the Moon is from the edges of the Earth’s atmosphere and this has caused all the blue light to be ‘scattered out’, leaving red light to be reflected off the Moon’s surface and making it appear red in the sky as we look at it from Earth.
A ‘super moon’ is actually a colloquial name for something astrologers call a perigean full moon. That is, a full moon that occurs when the moon as its closest point to the Earth during its orbit, making it appear bigger in the night sky.
The super blood moon will be visible over the UK in the early hours, according to NASA.
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