'Super Flower Blood Moon' , Lunar Eclipse , Will Happen This Weekend.<br />The 'super flower blood moon' lunar eclipse will begin on Sunday, May 15.<br />It begins at exactly 10:27 p.m. EST and takes about an hour to reach totality.<br />There is no harm in looking directly at the moon as there is with a solar eclipse.<br />A lunar eclipse happens as the Earth moves in between the sun and a full moon.<br />This causes the light that hits the moon to shift in color from gray to red.<br />The name blood moon is derived from the deep reddish color that is the result of the eclipse.<br />This moon is also a supermoon, so named because it appears larger in the sky.<br />Because the orbit of the moon is not a perfect circle, the moon is sometimes closer to the Earth than at other times during <br />its orbit, NASA, via 'USA Today'.<br />A supermoon is usually around <br />7 percent larger in the sky ... .<br />... and 15 percent brighter than a standard full moon.<br />According to 'The Old Farmer's Almanac,' 2022 will be host to four supermoons.<br />The moon on Sunday will also be a "flower" moon.<br />'The Old Farmer's Almanac' states that a "flower" moon is so named as "flowers spring forth across North America in abundance this month.".<br />According to NASA, May's supermoon is also known as a corn planting moon and a milk moon.<br />Moons derive their <br />names from multiple <br />sources including Indigenous, <br />Colonial American and European
