{"id":345992,"date":"2025-09-09T17:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=345992"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:09:20","slug":"blood-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/blood-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>A rare Blood Moon appeared on September 7, 2025, longest since 2022, widely visible across Asia and Europe.<\/p>\n<h2>About Blood Moon<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_345993\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-345993\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-345993\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Source-HT.jpg?resize=300%2C201&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Source-HT.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Source-HT.jpg?resize=1024%2C685&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Source-HT.jpg?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Source-HT.jpg?w=1150&amp;ssl=1 1150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-345993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; HT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A Blood Moon is the red glow of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse. It occurs at the full moon phase when Earth\u2019s shadow covers the Moon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Occurring mechanism<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Sun, Earth, and Moon align, with Earth between the Sun and the Moon.<\/li>\n<li>The Moon enters Earth\u2019s umbra, blocking direct sunlight.<\/li>\n<li>Sunlight reaching the Moon is filtered through Earth\u2019s atmosphere: shorter blue wavelengths scatter away, while longer red wavelengths bend toward the Moon, creating the reddish hue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Rayleigh Scattering<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Explained by John <strong>William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>When light interacts with particles smaller than its wavelength, scattered intensity is inversely proportional to wavelength.<\/li>\n<li>Blue light scatters more strongly, which makes the sky appear blue.<\/li>\n<li>During an eclipse, this scattering removes blue light, letting red light pass through Earth\u2019s atmosphere to illuminate the Moon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A rare Blood Moon appeared on September 7, 2025, longest since 2022, widely visible across Asia and Europe. About Blood Moon A Blood Moon is the red glow of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse. It occurs at the full moon phase when Earth\u2019s shadow covers the Moon. Occurring mechanism The Sun, Earth,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/blood-moon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blood Moon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,11209,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-345992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}