blood moon

Something that hadn't happened since 1982 took place Sunday night. If you missed it, prepare to be awed.

The United States and much of the world saw skies graced by a bright, big moon that was encapsulated in a total lunar eclipse late Sunday evening into early Monday. The supermoon, which comes around once every year, will appear 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter in the sky before it was engulfed by an eclipse for more than an hour...

These are pretty sweet. It's interesting to see the pictures from around the world of the exact same thing and the view we each get from different cities. The moon appeared larger than normal because the moon was just 59 minutes past its closest approach to Earth in 2015 at mid-eclipse, sometimes called a supermoon...

Sunday evening, despite some possible clouds rolling in, keep an eye to the sky. Not only is it a "supermoon", but it will be immediately followed by a full lunar eclipse. It only happens once every 30 years. So what exactly is a supermoon...

It's the 2nd and final lunar eclipse of 2014...but what exactly IS a "blood moon"? In the simplest terms we could find (from USA Today) The moon will appear a coppery red, so it's been called a "blood" moon. It'll look red because of all the sunsets and sunrises from the Earth that will reflect onto the lunar surface...