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No. This planetary alignment causes a lunar eclipse because, the earth blocks the sun's rays from reaching the moon, so that the moon is inside the earth's shadow.

S<<<E===m

in the diagram above s represents the sun E represtents the Earth and m represents the moon. The< represents the sun's rays and the = represents the Earth's shadow.

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