In this handout photo provided by NASA, A total lunar eclipse is seen as the full moon is shadowed by the Earth on the arrival of the winter solstice, on December 21, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia.
(Bill Ingalls/NASA/Getty)
For the first time in over four hundred years, a lunar eclipse lands on the winter solstice. On the morning after this auspicious coincidence, we catch up with some professional star gazers to get a sense of the event’s astronomic and historical significance. We speak with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of NOVA's "Science Now," along with Cameron Hummel, a PhD Student at Columbia University’s Department of Astronomy.
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Comments [5]
Wish I could've seen it. Unfortunately, by the time of totality our skies were clouded over. At least we got to see it as it was entering the umbral shadow.
i don't live in Virginia but i saw it in my country although it wasn't red but still, it was really freaky!
Neal, thank you.
At 3:00 in the morning I went outside on my front lawn, I looked up at the moon. It took my breath away. it was beautiful, blood-red. I said a prayer. And then I went back to bed.
Top news 2010----
US is declared an Idiocracy after rejecting Democracy and Evolution. No longer will the US experience lunar eclipses - these events will now be interpreted Acts of God forewarning doom and gloom because of womens lib, gay soldiers and other issues offensive to the 70% majority who reject evolution.
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