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Smoke from Canada has caused the moon and sun to take on reddish tints.

Jupiter and Venus may be

but there's another celestial happening that's creating its own buzz.

Tuesday night's moon took on a red hue.

If you're wondering why, you can just blame Canada.

According to the National Weather Service in Huntsville, large wildfires in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan have sent plumes of smoke to the U.S. While the smoke should remain in the higher atmosphere and not affect air quality, it is giving the moon a rosy glow. The sun will also take on a similar color Wednesday morning.

Here's the technical explanation:

"Light from the sun and moon gets scattered as it enters our atmosphere by particles like water, aerosols and in this case smoke," Meteorologist Dan Ebner said. "Green, blue and purple colors are scattered by those particles and sent in all directors, but colors like red, orange and yellow don't get scattered and continue through the atmosphere until it makes it to our eyes."

So now you know.