I’m the world's only solar eclipse journalist. I'm the editor of WhenIsTheNextEclipse.com and author of The Complete Guide To The Great North American Eclipse of April 8, 2024 and When Is The Next Eclipse? A traveler’s guide to total solar eclipses 2024-2034.
Two eclipses will occur in the next few weeks—a lunar eclipse in the early hours of Monday, March 25, and a solar eclipse on Monday, April 8. Although they are very different phenomena, they are caused by the same celestial alignment.
A perfect alignment of the sun, Earth and moon. Earth has two shadows—its fuzzy outer penumbral shadow and its dark central umbral shadow. When a full moon drifts into Earth's umbra, it receives no direct light from the sun. The only light on its surface is sunlight refracted by Earth's atmosphere. The effect is a thousand sunsets on the lunar surface, which turns a pinkish-red for a short time—a"Blood Moon.
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