There is a Blue Moon coming up this year! Make sure you don't miss it ⬇️
Yes! But this is a very rare event, in fact, you could say it happens"once in a Blue Moon".
According to NASA in 1883 an Indonesian volcano called Krakatoa erupted and spread ash as high as 50 miles into the atmosphere. The tiny ash particles — about one micron in size — acted as a filter, scattering red light and turning the moon a distinct blue-green hue. , other volcanic eruptions have also been known to cause blue moons including the 1983 eruption of El Chichon volcano in Mexico and the eruptions of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991.
But thanks to a couple of misinterpretations of this arcane rule, first by Sky & Telescope magazine, then many years later by a syndicated radio program, it now appears that the second full Moon in a month is the one that’s now popularly accepted as the definition of a “Blue Moon.”August 30, 2023. Either a calendrical oddity or the moon actually appearing blue to the eye. This poetic phrase refers to something extremely rare in occurrence. Only under certain atmospheric conditions.
And on September 24th, 1950, a 200-mile-wide swath of smoke from a series of smoldering fires in the forests of Northern Alberta in Canada cast an awesome pall over the Great Lakes, parts of New York State and Southern New England. The smoke produced an unusual midday darkness and caused the disk of the sun to shine in eerie hues of pink, blue and even purple!To see the moon actually turn blue, requires either a massive volcanic eruption or a giant pall of airborne smoke .
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