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The Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse occurs over Columbus, Ohio on May 15, 2022. May's full moon is known as the flower moon, and it temporarily turned red while it was in the earth's shadow.Super Flower Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse

Total lunar eclipse creates dazzling 'blood moon'

This year's flower moon will coincide with a total lunar eclipse.

May's flower full moon will blossom in the sky this weekend

Clouds roll in as a full moon moves through the shadow of the earth during a "Blood Moon" lunar eclipse in San Diego, California, U.S., May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Blake

A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon red. Here's how to watch

This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, with an added black background to fit wider screens. It's the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this black hole. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single "Earth-sized" virtual telescope. The telescope is named after the event horizon, the boundary of the black hole beyond which no light can escape. Although we cannot see the event horizon itself, because it cannot emit light, glowing gas orbiting around the black hole reveals a telltale signature: a dark central region (called a shadow) surrounded by a bright ring-like structure. The new view captures light bent by the powerful gravity of the black hole, which is four million times more massive than our Sun. The image of the Sgr A* black hole is an average of the different images the EHT Collaboration has extracted from its 2017 observations. In addition to other facilities, the EHT network of radio observatories that made this image possible includes the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) in the Atacama Desert in Chile, co-owned and co-operated by ESO is a partner on behalf of its member states in Europe.

New image reveals the 'gentle giant' at the heart of the Milky Way

1st image of supermassive black hole at the center of Milky Way galaxy revealed

Several Arabidopsis plants sprouting from lunar soil
Lunar Plants Research Documentation, Tuesday May 5th, 2021.