Blue moon? Friday’s celestial event comes

Britain will be treated to a rare astrological spectacle on Friday evening as the first blue moon since 2012 graces its skies.

One thing about the summer sunshine – the clear skies at night have allowed for a few great nighttime photos of the moon. Be sure to share your photos with us!

“For this reason, red blue moons are far more common than blue blue moons”, reported by NASA. This July is the first blue moon since August 2012. Both were odd. The saying “he would argue the moon was blue” was taken by people in the 16th century to mean that “he would argue that black is white”. Other coasts will be able to see the blue moon as it sets in the morning. That’s why the full moon doesn’t happen on the same date every month and why we sometimes see an overlap in the number of full moons within the span of a single month. NASA explained the July 31 Blue Moon in a video released earlier this week. The Maine Farmers’ Almanac defined the blue moon as the “third full moon in a three-month season that has four moons rather than the usual three”. This year, 2015, is one of the special years with an extra full moon, in that every month has had (and will have) one full moon, which is typical, with the exception of July. Even though the full moon appears to last whole night it is actually an instantaneous event which takes place at the moment when the moon, the Earth and the sun fall close to a straight line. Now, it won’t actually be blue.

Can forest fires can also change its colour?

Aerosols that are shot up by volcanoes are very minute, and they disperse blue light and thus the myth of blue moon started. This rare phenomenon happens every two-and-a-half years on an average.

In 1883, ash from the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia turned the moon blue after “Krakatoa’s clouds… acted like a blue filter”, NASA said.