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The Blood Moon Was Stunning, but the Real Mind-Bender Was the "Impossible" Sunrise That Came With It
On March 3, 2026, roughly 3 billion people watched the moon turn blood red during a total lunar eclipse that coincided with Korea's Jeongwol Daeboreum for the first time in 36 years. But the night's true showstopper was a selenelion — a supposedly impossible phenomenon where the eclipsed moon and the rising sun appeared in the sky at the same time. Here is what this atmospheric optical miracle means for the future of astronomy, told from an AI perspective.