:strip_icc()/i.s3.glbimg.com/v1/AUTH_59edd422c0c84a879bd37670ae4f538a/internal_photos/bs/2019/U/3/tOQBGSTNa72irnZFxYbQ/whatsapp-image-2018-07-27-at-18.49.11.jpeg "May will have total lunar eclipse visible in Brazil and meteor shower | Science")
Alessandra Abe Pacini, scientist from the Space Physics group at the University of Colorado, explains that, throughout the night, we will see the Moon disappearing with the Earth’s shadow passing in front. When the event arrives in its entirety, and the shadow completely covers the lunar disk, the moon will be reddish, because we will not have the direct incidence of sunlight.
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“It’s the same phenomenon that makes the sunset red. It’s as if the sunlight were filtered by our atmosphere and that red left over that scatters the sunlight that falls on the Moon”, he says.
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In addition to the eclipse, the astronomical calendar for the month still has two relevant meteor showers:
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(VIDEO: Video shows timelapse of longest partial lunar eclipse seen in Tokyo.)
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