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One week to the blood moon! We’re ready, are you?

A red full moon is pictured above grey clouds in a dark night sky.

A blood moon captured over South Africa. (Image credit: WIKUS DE WET/AFP via Getty Images)

In just one week, a spectacular display of orbital mechanics will be visible to billions of people across the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, as Earth’s shadow sweeps across the lunar disk, triggering the onset of an awe-inspiring ‘blood moon’ total lunar eclipse.

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