The total lunar eclipse will tint the moon an orangey-red color, which is called a blood ... by dust or smoke in the atmosphere. If you saw an orange or reddish moon high in the sky before the ...

A blood moon, properly called ... volcanic ash, or smoke from a wildfire), the scattering will be more intense, and the moon will appear a deeper shade of red. The best view of the eclipse will ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and beautiful, star-studded Milky Way.

A close-to-home sky show will be put on late in the evening of Thursday, March 13 and into the early morning hours of March 14. This is when a so-called “blood moon” lunar eclipse plays out ...

The sky was hazy, which made the big white moon seem even more vivid, like a single light bulb above a high closet shelf. The moon hadn’t yet begun to blush, the spectacle that gives blood moons ...

Any changes to that atmosphere, like smoke, can skew the color. We’ve had Blood Moons of dark ... lighting the night sky across North America in March 2026. Moon Pies might be a nice way to ...