Tonight there will be an eclipse visible in North America (at least where the clouds part). It will<\/p>\n
start a few minutes before 1 a.m. EDT and slowly continue over the next two hours until it peaks (reaches totality) about 3 a.m. Tuesday. On the West Coast, it starts about 10 p.m. Monday night and reaches totality just after midnight.<\/em><\/p>\n A bonus: This eclipse will be a “blood moon,” in which our nearest celestial neighbor will look the color of a desert sunset. The reason? Because “even when the Earth moves directly between the moon and the sun, filtered sunlight still shines through Earth’s atmosphere,\u00a0making the moon appear red.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n If you miss this one, there will be three more in the coming year and half.<\/p>\n