Footballer supporters from at least half of Manchester will be keeping their eyes peeled on the skies on Wednesday night as a Blue Moon will appear
A moon of course isn’t actually blue.
It is the name given to a second full moon in a single calendar month — a pretty unusual phenomenon in itself,and which won’t happen again for 14 years
The event will be peaking at around 2.35am on Thursday in the UK and thus blue moon dubbed a super moon,will be even closer to Earth, at 222,043 miles away, making it appear bigger in the sky.
Its rarity is where the expression “once in a blue moon” comes from.
According to NASA in 1883 an Indonesian volcano called Krakatoa erupted and spread ash as high as 50 miles (80 kilometers) into the atmosphere. The tiny ash particles — about one micron in size — acted as a filter, scattering red light and turning the moon a distinct blue-green hue.
According to NASA Science, other volcanic eruptions have also been known to cause blue moons including the 1983 eruption of El Chichon volcano in Mexico and the eruptions of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991.
