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What types of moons are there for example blue moon and red moon and how do they occur?
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"Blue moon" isn't really a "type of moon"; it refers to having an extra full moon in a certain time period. The moon can look red during a full lunar eclipse.
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Its because of geometrical alignment of the earth, moon and the sun. Like when you get a lunar eclipse its because the sun, earth and the moon are in a straight line in that order and the earth's shadow is covering the moon. The solar eclipse also occurs in the same way only the position of the earth and the moon are interchanged.
About the blood moon(red moon). It occurs due to scattering of light. Now you know that the moonlight is actually reflected sunlight. During a lunar eclipse when you are experiencing about 70-90% of the eclipse the sunlight falling on the exposed part of the moon is reflected back to earth and in the atmosphere it is scattered. Now because the red part of the visible light spectrum have longer wavelength than the blue part that part of the moon appears red.
Why this happens is another question.
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