In Photos: Nearly Total ‘Blood Moon’ Eclipse Stuns Skywatchers
Earth’s shadow covered 96% of the Moon’s disk, leaving only a thin sunlit sliver and a copper-red glow, astronomers said.
- On Thursday night and early Friday, Aug. 28, 2026, a deep partial lunar eclipse known as an "almost blood moon" captivated observers across the Americas, Europe, and Africa as Earth's shadow engulfed the Sturgeon Moon.
- This celestial event resulted from a precise alignment of the sun, moon, and Earth—a phenomenon astronomers call syzygy—occurring just 16 days after a total solar eclipse swept across Greenland, Iceland, and Spain.
- Roughly 96% of the lunar surface was engulfed by Earth's shadow at maximum eclipse, leaving only a 4% sliver in direct sunlight, while over 3 billion people—44% of the world's population—were positioned to view the phenomenon.
- Light filtering through Earth's atmosphere created the moon's crimson glow, as NASA explains that air molecules scatter blue light, reflecting red hues onto the lunar surface and causing the striking copper-red appearance.
- Stargazers can anticipate the Harvest Moon on Sept. 26, 2026, though the next total lunar eclipse will not occur until New Year's Eve 2028, positioning Asia and Australia for the event.
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At 4:34 in the morning in Italy began the partial phase of the Moon's eclipse. While the satellite crossed the shadow cone of the Earth, an increasing portion of its disk lost its normal luminosity until it was almost completely obscured. At the climax of the phenomenon, shortly after 6:12, 96.3% of the visible surface of the Moon was inside the humbra, the darkest part of the Earth's shadow. The eclipse therefore remained partial for very littl…
Already finished Thursday, and in the early hours of the morning of Friday (28), several places in the world could see the Moon hidden by the shadow of the Earth, in a lunar eclipse observable to the naked eye, and which left in shades of red the natural satellite of our planet. See here some of the images of a night when we looked back up to look at a celestial spectacle
The blood moon eclipse that occurred early this morning was observed from Tunceli, as well as from across the country. The blood moon reached its most striking phase towards sunrise.
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