The celestial curtain will be rising soon on a lunar extravaganza.
The Earth will slide directly between the moon and the sun, creating a total lunar eclipse. There won't be another until 2021.
It will also be the year's first supermoon, when a full moon appears a little bigger and brighter thanks to its slightly closer position.
The entire eclipse will exceed three hours. Totality — when the moon's completely bathed in Earth's shadow — will last an hour. Expect the eclipsed, or blood moon, to turn red from sunlight scattering off Earth's atmosphere.
January's full Moon is also known as a 'wolf moon', a name deriving from Native American Tribes who said wolves would howl outside villages during full moons at the beginning of the year.
