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Blood Moon: The Lunar Eclipse Phenomenon in 2014-2015

Witness the rare sight of a lunar eclipse turning the moon a reddish-orange hue, near you in the United States. This captivating celestial event, occurring shortly after the perigee, showcases the moon at its closest to Earth. The second in a series of four, this blood moon offers a unique opportunity not seen for centuries. Learn about the historical significance and global visibility of this astronomical marvel. In other news, discover the groundbreaking Nobel Prize win in Chemistry and a maritime mystery involving a missing oil tanker. Stay informed about the latest events intersecting science, technology, and global affairs.

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Blood Moon: The Lunar Eclipse Phenomenon in 2014-2015

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  1. “Blood moon -- the sequel: It's in the sky near you”

  2. If you live anywhere in the United States, you had a front-row seat (this morning) for the show -- a lunar eclipse that turned the moon a burnt reddish orange. The full eclipse started at 6:25 a.m. and lasts until 7:24 a.m.. Because it happens right after the perigee -- that's when the moon is closest in its orbit to Earth -- this blood moon will be nearly the size of a super moon. This is the second blood moon in a sequence of four. April 4, 2015, is the next one, and last will appear on September 28, 2015. With that frequency, you could be misled into thinking that blood moons are fairly common. Guess again. There was a 300-year period when there were none. That would mean that neither Sir Isaac Newton, Mozart, Queen Anne, George Washington, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln ever had a chance to see such a sequence. The most unique thing about the 2014-2015 sequence is that all of them are visible for the U.S.A.. Not all will be so lucky. The people of Europe, Africa and the Middle East will not be able to see this blood moon.

  3. In Other News Two Americans and a German won the Nobel prize in Chemistry this year for their work on optical microscopy that has opened up our understanding of molecules by allowing us to see their functions. The winners are Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner, the Nobel committee announced Wednesday. Back in 1873, science believed it had reached a limit in how much more of a detailed picture a microscope could provide. At the time, miscroscopist Ernst Abbe said that we had reached the maximum resolution. This year's winners proved that contention wrong. "Due to their achievements the optical microscope can now peer into the nanoworld," the committee said. Vietnamese authorities are searching for an oil tanker feared to have been taken by pirates just 40 minutes after it departed Singapore for Vietnam almost one week ago. The Sunrise 689 was carrying 18 crew and 5,200 tons of oil when it left Singapore's Horizon port on October 2, according to the Vietnamese News Service (VNS). The ship's owner, the Hai Phong Seafood Shipbuilding Join Stock Company, reported that it lost contact with the ship within an hour of its departure, VNS said.

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