ScienceCasts: Watch Out For The Blue Moon

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The second full Moon of August--a "Blue Moon"--is just around the corner. It will probably look just like any other full Moon but, on rare occasions, the Moon really does turn blue. Could it happen this month?

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[Grant Miller]

How appropriate and ironic that even the Moon will be "Blue" on the day of Neil Armstrong's funeral.

[MetalicAtheist]

NASA: the only organization to ever say red blue moons exist and be absolutely serious about it.

I love you guys.

[Maureen Vega]

like the movie called smurf

[John Champagne]

I think this phrase 'blue moon' refers to the rare view of earthshine on the dark face of a thin crescent moon. When they are visible, it is only for from fewer than 20 minutes up to about an hour, once or twice a month, if at all.

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[gitanoboriqua]

now i know why they call it a blue. thanks for the info.

[thintwexaslem]

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[EpicJGames]

i was in maryland usa and looked out the window the whole night and saw just a full white moon....

[UkTruthSeeker2009]

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