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A lunar eclipse happens when the Moon passes through the Earth's shadow. Earth always has a shadow, which is created by the Sun. On those rare occasions when the Moon, Earth and the Sun are all lined up just right, the Moon passes through this shadow.This would happen every full moon if the Moon orbited around the Earth in the same plane as the Earth orbits around the Sun.

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Explain how the shading of the direct light of the sun causes lunar eclipse?

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon, causing the Earth's shadow to fall on the Moon. This shadow has three parts: the umbra (the darkest part), the penumbra (the outer part), and the antumbra. When the Moon moves into the Earth's umbra, it experiences a total lunar eclipse, where it may appear red due to Rayleigh scattering of sunlight through the Earth's atmosphere, often referred to as a "blood moon." Thus, the shading of direct sunlight by the Earth is what creates the conditions for a lunar eclipse.


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A solar eclipse happens when the Moon blocks the light from the Sun, thus always observed at day. By contract, a lunar eclipse is the earth shading the light from the Sun on the Moon, and is therefore observable only at night when the Moon is visible.


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An eclipse is when the moon is in direct correlation with the sun and temporarily blocks its light from reaching the earth.


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Will you get blind if you look at a lunar eclipse?

Lunar eclipses are safe to watch, as moon light is reflected light and a lot weaker than the direct light from the sun.


What is the properties of light causes eclipse?

During an eclipse, the properties of light that cause it are the blocking of light by an intervening object (e.g. the moon passing between the sun and Earth during a solar eclipse) and the scattering or bending of light (e.g. the Earth's atmosphere scattering sunlight to create a red color during a lunar eclipse).


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