How to See the Blood Moon and Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight
When sunlight hits Earth’s atmosphere during a lunar eclipse, light frequencies toward the blue end of the visible spectrum are scattered outward, away from Earth’s umbra, but those with longer wavelengths, toward the red part of the spectrum, are bent inward and cast onto the moon.
In New Jersey, the lunar eclipse will start just before midnight Thursday at 11:57 p.m. Total lunar eclipses are commonly referred to as "blood moons" because of the moon's tendency to turn a ...
Tonight, onlookers will get the first glimpse of a total lunar eclipse since 2022, provided that impending storms don’t rain on everyone’s parade.
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