Tomorrow evening at 5:06 PST, the moon will glow a dim red as it passes through the Earth’s umbra in the first total lunar eclipse in a million-bizmillion years. Ok, not really. A lunar eclipse isn’t really all that rare, but trust me, it’s a truly amazing thing to see. The moon becomes a flat, ruddy disc “sliding silently overhead. It’s fuckin’ beautiful is what it is.” Sorry, sometimes the Dismemberment Plan just find the words better than the rest of us could.

This is just one is a series of celestial phenomina to capture the public eye this year, and it won’t be the last. Recently, curious eyes were turned skyward to witness Mars as it passed closer to the Earth than it has in over 60,000 years. Soon after, solar storms leapt from the surface of our Sun with a ferocity previously unseen. Solar radiation struck the earth and caused slight interruptions in cellular and satelite transmissions.

On November 19th, viewers of the “Leonid Meteor Shower will be able to see 100 or so meteors per hour, some of them [forming] fireballs.”

Lunar Eclipse