There was an opportunity Thursday night to catch the March 2025 "Blood Moon," a phenomenon that colors the full moon in shades of red, orange and yellow during a total lunar eclipse.

Here’s why and how the moon can look yellow, orange or red without an eclipse and when Friday's total lunar eclipse blood moon will reach totality.

You can use a prism to split (or disperse) white light into a spectrum of colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Dispersed means that the colours are separated out.

The result is a dim moon painted with a red-orange hue ... When this happens, the blue part of the sun's light scatters off into the distance, and we're left with the yellow-to-red part of ...

The moon can also look red, yellow or orange when it’s rising or setting ... while shorter wavelengths of light, such as blue, get scattered,” Wonderopolis says. “That's why the Moon ...