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JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Curiosity and fear have welcomed a complete lunar eclipse, the longest of this century and visible in much of the world.
The so-called "blood moon", when it turns red, was visible at different times in Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America when the sun, the Earth, and the Moon s & # 39, aligned perfectly, projecting the shadow of the Earth on the moon
. All of Africa turned to the sky, watching the reddish shadow slide on the surface of the moon. In Somalia, some rushed to mosques for special prayers. In South Sudan, some have dared to take pictures in a war-torn country where to discourage the use of a camera in public.
In the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, people from an open-air restaurant admired a rare unobstructed view during the rainy season. , comparing a live broadcast of NASA to what they saw above. Then the clouds entered.
"Dem yelebesech chereka", some whisper – Amharic for "moon of blood."
"The moon blushes because atmospheric scattering makes red light pbad through the atmosphere and composition Tom Kerss, an astronomer from the Royal Observatory of Greenwich
" And the density of the Dust that increases in the atmosphere can make the moon appear a particularly deep red, and indeed, it has the same effect on our sunsets and our sunrises. "
In a special treatment, Mars is also at its closest approach to the Earth since 2003, making it bigger and brighter.The media shared photos of the bright planet just to the right of the
North America missed the lunar eclipse on Friday, but can look forward to the next January 21, 2019, according to NASA.
Elias Meseret writers in Addis -Abeba, Ethiopia, Abdi Guled in Mogadishu, Somalia and Sam Mednick in Juba, South Sudan contributed
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