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January 28
5:57 PM /

South And Central Coast Residents Can See Rare Lunar Eclipse This Week

Photo courtesy of NASA

South and Central Coast residents are in for a rare astronomical treat this week.

On Wednesday between 5 am and 6 am, there will be a “Super Blue Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse.”

"You're going to see a big moon -- very big moon, very bright moon. A shadow of earth starts to pass over it, so it starts getting darker and darker. And all of sudden, it gets a little reddish. So, it's changing colors from a bright, whitish, almost bluish color to a dark red. Then, it starts lighting up again," said Javier Rivera, a physicist who oversees the astronomy programs at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

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