Anatomy of a super blood wolf moon
On Sunday, Jan. 20, North America will witness a rare lunar eclipse caused by the alignment of three factors: it is the year’s first full moon (wolf moon), the moon is at its closest distance to the earth (super moon), and a total lunar eclipse (blood moon). Combined, this will make the moon appear larger, brighter and ‘blood’-red in the sky.
There will only be three super wolf blood moons this century, according to Kat Kelly, an astronomer with the H.R. Macmillan Space Centre,
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