What is a Super Blue Blood Moon?
This ultra-rare phenomenon occurs when a blue moon and a super moon coincide with the blood moon of a lunar eclipse.A blue moon is the name for the second full moon in a calendar month. It is relatively rare, hence the expression "once in a blue moon".The last one before now was in May 2016. A super moon is the name for a full moon when the satellite is at the closest point in its orbit around he Earth. Blood moon comes from the rusty red appearance during a total lunar eclipse, when the Moon is in the Earth's shadow. The color is caused by blue light scattering as the sun's rays pass are refracted through the Earth's atmosphere.
Significance of Super Blue Blood Moon
Blood moons have long formed part of prophecies, originally serving as an omen in the Book of Joel, where
it is written: "The sun will turn into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the
Lord comes." The blood moon also appears in the Book of Revelation where it says: "And I beheld when he had
opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and
the moon became as blood".
