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Videos amusement "Blood Moon," full lunar eclipse
Stargazers who looked up astatine the entity past nighttime and aboriginal this greeting mightiness person spotted the March 2025 "Blood Moon," a full lunar eclipse that colored the satellite successful shades of red, orangish and yellow.
March's afloat satellite is called the "Worm Moon," according to the Farmer's Almanac, which has documented the past of however afloat moons are named. Moons that instrumentality connected these reddish hues during a full lunar eclipse are called "Blood Moons." The combined nicknames person resulted successful immoderate calling it the "Blood Worm Moon."
The satellite roseate successful its totality aboriginal Friday, and is expected to beryllium disposable done Saturday morning, according to NASA. Pictures captured during the lawsuit connected Friday amusement the strangely colored lunar assemblage ample successful the entity arsenic it passed done the Earth's shadow.
Pictures of past night's full lunar eclipse
During a full lunar eclipse, the Earth passes straight betwixt the satellite and the sun. The alignment blocks astir sunlight from reaching the satellite for a little period, though the satellite remains disposable during this time.
Photos amusement overmuch of the satellite covered by the Earth's shadow.
The afloat "Blood Worm Moon" is seen during a full lunar eclipse connected March 14, 2025, successful Merritt Island, Florida.
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The "Blood Moon" lunar eclipse is seen down a statue connected the Princes' Gates successful Toronto connected Friday, March 14, 2025.
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This operation of pictures created connected March 14, 2025, shows (L-R) the afloat satellite during the progression of a lunar eclipse, seen from Villa de Leyva, Colombia.
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Pictures of past night's "Blood Worm Moon"
In immoderate images from aboriginal Friday morning, the satellite appears red.
The reddish hues look due to the fact that immoderate airy inactive reaches the satellite erstwhile it's afloat successful Earth's shadow, but those wavelengths are red, orangish and yellow, NASA said. They bespeak connected the moon's aboveground and make the colorful phenomenon.
A full lunar eclipse is disposable betwixt skyscrapers Friday, March 14, 2025, successful downtown Chicago.
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A full lunar eclipse is seen implicit the Space Needle, Thursday, March 13, 2025, successful Seattle.
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A full lunar eclipse implicit Colima, Mexico aboriginal Friday, March 14.
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The "Blood Worm Moon" lunar eclipse is seen supra Austin, Texas, connected March 14, 2025.
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When volition the adjacent full lunar eclipse instrumentality place?
The adjacent full lunar eclipse volition instrumentality spot connected Sept. 7 and 8, according to timeanddate.com. The totality of that eclipse won't beryllium disposable successful the Americas, though. Another full lunar eclipse volition hap successful early March 2026, and is expected to beryllium disposable successful the United States.
Kerry Breen is simply a quality exertion astatine CBSNews.com. A postgraduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she antecedently worked astatine NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers existent events, breaking quality and issues including substance use.
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