It took photographer Marcella Julia Pace ten years to capture these 48 colors of the Moon 🌕
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/photographer-marcella-giulia-pace-moon-colors
It took photographer Marcella Julia Pace ten years to capture these 48 colors of the Moon 🌕
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/photographer-marcella-giulia-pace-moon-colors
The explanation of why the moon "appears as a squished ellipse" is a bit misleading. The cause is not some imaginary bending of light (wtf?), but rather that the moon bounces off the edge of the Earth and is temporarily deformed as it rises again—anyone can understand this by throwing a ball.