Look up at the skies tonight for a ‘blood moon’

Look up at the skies tonight for a ‘blood moon’

Skies over South Korea, along with those across Australia, the Pacific Islands, Asia and the Americas, will glow a deep reddish-orange on Tuesday during a total lunar eclipse coinciding with Jeongwol Daeboreum, the traditional Korean holiday celebrating the first full moon of the lunar year, which this year falls on March 3. Known as a "blood moon," the phenomenon occurs when Earth passes directly between the sun and the moon, casting a shadow on the moon's surface and causing it to appear crims

By The Korea Herald