• Question: where and what place has the most blood moons

    Asked by anon-357058 to Vicky on 15 Mar 2023.
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      Vicky Fawcett answered on 15 Mar 2023:


      A blood moon happens when the moon passes into the Earth’s shadow (a lunar eclipse). There will definitely be other solar systems in our galaxy that have a similar occurrence: a planet that orbits a star and a moon that orbits the planet, so I think blood moons probably happen in many places.
      However, it’s really really hard to detect moons orbiting other planets because they are just so small! I think we have only ever discovered one moon around a planet that is not in our solar system, so we don’t know where they are at the moment!

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