A rare blood moon will light up the sky on Thursday night into the early hours of Friday during a lunar eclipse. CBC’s Britnei Bilhete has the details on how you can catch it.
If you look up at the sky late, late Thursday in the Toronto area, there’s a chance you’ll be able to see a total lunar eclipse and what’s called a blood moon.
The perfect alignment of the sun, Earth, and moon will paint the full moon a red-orange colour, with the remaining rays peaking out from around our planet, according to NASA.
“Total lunar eclipses are a little bit more rare, but they’re always really striking to see,” Ontario Science Centre’s staff astronomer Rachel Ward-Maxwell told CBC Toronto.
“What’s really special about these sorts of events is it connects us with so many different people from all different parts of the planet… that is a really …