Last night, Kyiv residents

watched the "bloody" moon in the sky above the capital

.

In social networks, they publish photos and write about ominous signs.

Scientists deny any anomalies and signs - this is a common phenomenon in the sky.

It's just that because of the war, people have become too nervous and look for "signs" where they shouldn't be.

The astronomical observatory of the Kyiv National University commented on

the celestial phenomenon for the

TSN.ua website.

"At night, the light comes only from the moon, and if there are clouds in the sky, then we see it a little redder. There is nothing surprising in this. Every time the moon is behind the clouds, it will be red. After all, moonlight has all the colors of the rainbow. Clouds pass long-wave the part of the spectrum is yellow, yellow-hot and red, and the short-wavelength part is delayed - violet, blue, green. It all depends on the chemical composition and density of the clouds. That is why we see the red moon. There is nothing strange or abnormal here," he told the TSN website .ua Anatoliy Kazantsev, senior researcher at the Astronomical Observatory of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University.

Photo: "Kyivskyi Dvizh"

The scientist adds that the moon does not necessarily have to be red because of the clouds. 

"If the Moon is high above the horizon, it will not be red. If it is low above the horizon, it will have a red color, because closer to the horizon there is a thicker layer of the atmosphere. And it also does the same thing as clouds - it absorbs blue, violet , green, and passes through - yellow, yellow-hot, and red," Anatoly Kazantsev adds.

It will be recalled that Kyivans were frightened by unusual bright points in the sky that glow at night.

Residents of the capital initially wrote that these were some kind of aircraft related to the war, but later it turned out that the phenomenon in the sky had nothing to do with aviation or drones.

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