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Podcast: News Bites
Episode: Blood Moon, Long Train, Totoro on Stage
Description: In today's news, with Nancy and Hope:
A blood moon, a long train, and Totoro on stage.
All that and more, coming up next.
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月全食「掩天王星」11/8 登場
Blood Moon in the Sky Next Week
A blood moon is coming next week.
That sounds kind of scary, and it's not Halloween anymore right?
A blood moon is actually a full lunar eclipse (月全食).
That's when the moon moves into Earth's shadow.
That means the Earth is almost exactly between the Sun and the Moon.
When that happens, sunlight doesn't reach the moon.
The moon is only lit by light refracted (折射) from Earth.
So it looks a little different from the regu...