Why is the harvest moon red?

Question

When I say ‘like I’m 5’ I mean it, explain it for my dumb little brain please.

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Answer 1

During the sunset the sky is orange right? Wrong it’s still blue, but the clouds are red. When sunlight travels through Earth’s atmosphere the blue light gets scattered around, this is the colour that we can see in the sky. When that sunlight is cone so is the colour of the sky, which is why we can see the stars and not just black. If only the blue light gets scattered where does red and green go? Well most of the green goes with the blue but a bit of it goes with the red. The red just goes on straight forward. Which is why a sunset looks red, that red light is hitting clouds.

So what does all that mean the harvest moon. Well that light doesn’t disappear it keeps going until it reaches the moon.