27-01-2018 00:45 via ottawacitizen.com

Dispelling the 'blood moon/supermoon' lunacy

There’s a lunar eclipse coming next Wednesday and already some websites are calling it a blood moon, supermoon and blue moon in one breathless package.
They haven’t quite tied in an Elvis sighting, but York University astronomer Paul Delaney just laughs that it’s “lunacy.” Lunar eclipses are fun because you can look straight at them, but blood? And supermoons? Blue moon?
“All three are media-coined terms,” he told us. “There’s nothi
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