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Lunar eclipse

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Have you ever marvelled as the Moon dims and turns red in the night sky during a lunar eclipse? How does this happen? When the Sun, the Earth and the Moon line up just right we see a lunar eclipse. The red hue is caused by refracted sunlight passing through the Earth’s atmosphere, just like during sunrises and sunsets.