Important Takeaways:

• A total lunar eclipse – the first to grace our skies since 2022 – will happen in March, and it will bring us a Blood Moon that will appear tinted a reddish-orange to our eyes.
• The total lunar eclipse will start late on the night of March 13 and will end in the early hours of March 14, according to NASA. An eclipse like this happens when the Moon, Earth and Sun all align so that the Moon is passing into the Earth’s shadow.
• NASA explains it this way: “In a total lunar eclipse, the entire Moon falls within the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, called the umbra. When the Moon is within the umbra, it appears red-orange. Lunar eclipses are sometimes called ‘Blood Moons’ because of this phenomenon.”
• “During a lunar eclipse, the Moon appears red or orange because any sunlight that’s not blocked by our planet is filtered through a thick slice of Earth’s atmosphere on its way to the lunar surface. It’s as if all the world’s sunrises and sunsets are projected onto the Moon.”
• During this lunar eclipse, the phase of totality will last for just over an hour. Then we’ll see the moon begin to emerge from the shadow.

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