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Two of nature’s most dazzling phenomena overlapped during a narrow window on March 13, 2025, when totality — the period when the lunar surface turns a reddish color — lasted just 65 minutes.—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025 The most ideal opportunity to see the reddish moon is during the minutes leading up to 3 a.m. EDT, as the moon should be situated in the center of Earth's shadow around then.—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2025 The moon has a tendency to turn a reddish hue when covered by the Earth's shadow, hence the quirky nickname.—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025 Once tighter, blueish wavelengths can stretch out like rubber bands to become longer, reddish ones — and when traveling across vast distances, those wavelengths can really stretch out to end up in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reddish
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