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EARTHDATE: July 22, 2018

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LONG LUNAR ECLIPSE ON THE WAY

by Hazed

There’s a lunar eclipse coming soon, and it’s going to be especially long. Sadly for some of our readers, it won’t be visible in the US, but thoses in the UK will be able to see it – see the source link below for a map showing just where it will be visible.

A lunar eclipse is when the moon goes into the Earth’s shadow. No sunlight falls directly onto the moon, so it appears to turn red because sunlight is still refracted and bent around the earth’s atmosphere. Blue light gets scattered so only red light shines through.

This eclipse will happen on July 27 and it will last about 105 minutes, which makes it the longest of this century.

The next eclipse that will be visible in the US will happen in January 2019.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/north-america-will-not-be-able-to-see-the-longest-lunar-1827145075

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