The total lunar eclipse that unfolded on Nov. 8 was the last one for the next three years, according to astronomers.
The eclipse — also known as a blood moon, for the rusty, reddish hue that the moon takes on after fully entering into Earth's shadow — was visible throughout East Asia, Australia, the Pacific and North America for several hours. Photographers around the world took to the streets, eager to catch the night sky spectacle.
While the moon passes behind Earth every 30 days or so during its regular lunar cycle, the moon usually dodges Earth's shadow due to slight orbital differences between the two bodies. During a total lunar eclipse, the moon passes directly behind our planet's shadow. When the moon fully enters the darkest part of Earth's shadow — called the umbra — our neighbor in the sky doesn't turn completely black, but rather takes on a ghostly red hue. A phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering causes this rusty color: Essentially, when sunlight collides with Earth's atmosphere, blue light gets scattered while red light is refracted, or bent, around the planet until it lands on the moon.
The fully eclipsed Beaver Moon passes behind the Divine Savior of the World Monument in San Salvador, El Salvador. The fully eclipsed blood moon hangs over the enormous Space Launch System , also known as the Mega Moon Rocket, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA recently rolled the gargantuan rocket onto the launch pad in preparation for a planned liftoff on Nov. 14, as part of the agency's Artemis program to return humans to the moon.
A composite image shows several stages of the blood moon while it was being eclipsed by Earth's shadow on Nov. 8. The individual images were snapped in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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