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Coming: 1st Blue Supermoon Eclipse in 150 Years

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Mark the date, the blood moon or blue supermoon is coming in a rare lunar event which happens only every 150 years.

Three separate celestial events — a supermoon, a blue moon and a full lunar eclipse — will occur simultaneously on January 31.

Just weeks after 2018’s first supermoon of January 1 and 2, this astronomical rarity of events is being called a super blue blood moon eclipse.

This particular blue moon will likely look red in some areas, because of the total lunar eclipse which can give the moon a red tinge, giving it the name blood moon.

This confluence of events has not happened since the second half of the 19th century. And January’s blue moon will be followed by another blue moon in late March. (Read more from “Coming: 1st Blue Supermoon Eclipse in 150 Years” HERE)

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NASA: Meteor Slams into Moon, Causes Explosion Visible to Naked Eye on Earth (+video)

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Photo Credit: NASAA MASSIVE explosion from a meteor which crashed into the Moon was visible to the naked eye on Earth, NASA says.

A boulder-sized meteor slammed into the moon in March, causing an explosion so bright anyone looking up at the right moment would have spotted it, NASA said.

NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office is reporting the discovery of the brightest impact seen on the Moon in the eight years the monitoring program has run, the National Geographic reports

About 300 lunar impacts have been logged over the years but this latest impact, from March 17, is considered much, much brighter than anything else observed.

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Video: Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, dead at 82

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Neil Armstrong’s family reported this weekend that Mr. Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has died at age 82:

In tribute to Armstrong, here’s a video clip of the 1969 rocket launch and footage of the first steps on the moon:

Video: Romney taunts China over moon landing, Olympic medals

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In this humorous speech at a campaign stop this week, Romney taunted China over the US’s medal count and moon landing.