If you have any plans for late Sunday evening, go ahead and clear 'em, because you're gonna wanna be outside and looking up:
The last total lunar eclipse occurred a year ago, on May 26, 2021. If the weather is clear, millions of skywatchers in the Americas, Europe and Africa will be able to view the total lunar eclipse on the night of May 15-16.
It's not just any "total lunar eclipse," though. This sucker is going to have like six different nicknames:
During totality, the moon will be a faint, reddish glow, as red wavelengths of sunlight filter through our planet's atmosphere onto the moon's surface. At different moments during the eclipse, it could also appear to take on shades of orange, yellow or brown...
This month's full moon is also a supermoon, meaning it appears slightly larger and brighter than usual because it is at its closest point to Earth in its orbit, known as the perigee.
It's also the flower moon, one of the names given to May's full moon due to the abundance of flowers associated with spring in the Northern Hemisphere. It has also been called the corn planting moon and the milk moon.
That is a ton of qualifiers for this moon.
You don't want to miss this bad boy showing off in the Sunday sky!
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