June 2024's full Moon is the Strawberry Moon, and this year it coincides with the summer Solstice, which makes its appearance a little stranger - and darker - than usual.
Despite the name, and despite a lot of edited images (of varying quality), the Strawberry Moon isn't red. Instead, the full Moon will look golden or yellowish orange, as it often does when it's low on the horizon.
That's because, at this angle, the sunlight that reflects off the Moon's pale gray surface has to pass through a deeper cross-section of Earth's atmosphere to reach moongazers on the ground. On the way, air scatters the relatively short wavelengths of blue light, so only the longer wavelength colors like yellow, orange, and red make it through.
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