What's a pink moon?

The full moon of April, called the Pink Moon, will occur in the eastern U.S. Monday night (April 26), a day before it reaches perigee, the closest point in its orbit to Earth - meaning that it will be a near-"supermoon," appearing ever-so-slightly larger than usual.

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Is Strawberry Moon red?

Though June's full moon is known as the "strawberry" moon, it's unlikely to actually appear red or pink. Accordingly, will there be a blue moon in 2023? The next Blue Moon by this definition will come on. The time between one full moon and the next is close to the length of a calendar month. So the only time one month can have two full moons is when the first full moon happens in the first few days of the month.

Is Blue Moon real?

Blue moons aren't blue! Blue moons remain the same colour as any other full moon except in two rare cases. In very rare circumstances, the Moon can appear blue, but in this case it is a colour added to the Moon by viewing it through a haze of dust particles in our atmosphere, perhaps from a recent volcanic eruption. People also ask how is the moon red? The moon is fully in Earth's shadow. At the same time, a little bit of light from Earth's sunrises and sunsets (on the disk of the planet) falls on the surface of the moon. Because the light waves are stretched out, they look red. When this red light strikes the moon's surface, it also appears red.

In respect to this, what is an orange moon?

Earth's atmosphere is filled with all sorts of airborne particles that absorb and scatter light. These atmospheric particles tend to scatter shorter wavelengths of light more than longer wavelengths. These particles scatter light in the same way described above, leading to an orange or red Moon high in the sky.