The Eclipse You Might Be Overlooking

The April 8 solar eclipse isn’t even here yet as I write this, but it has already caused quite the stir. And lunar eclipses result when the Earth is positioned in between the moon and the sun, blocking the sun’s light and thus altering the appearance of the full moon. But it’s much easier to catch a lunar one because they can be seen from half of Earth, as opposed to the narrow swath in which a solar eclipse is visible. “There’s something about it that just grabs the imagination.” There are three types of lunar eclipse, depending on where the moon sits in Earth’s shadow. The red color is why total lunar eclipses are dubbed “blood moons.” The closer the moon is to the Earth during an eclipse, the redder it looks, making it a super blood moon.