--- title: Photos Show the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse in All its Glory description: In the Americas alone more than one billion people in 35 countries could bear witness to the total lunar eclipse. canonical: https://time.com/7268274/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-photos/ author: Jeffrey Kluger article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-03-14T16:26:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-11T00:20:54.984Z article:section: Science og:title: Photos Show the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse in All its Glory og:description: In the Americas alone more than one billion people in 35 countries could bear witness to the total lunar eclipse. og:url: https://time.com/7268274/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4b28ab5acd1d5c3/6998c4ed83ec3708f2c7a6a7/GettyImages-2204481955.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: COMBO-COLOMBIA-ASTRONOMY-MOON-ECLIPSE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Photos Show the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse in All its Glory twitter:description: In the Americas alone more than one billion people in 35 countries could bear witness to the total lunar eclipse. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4b28ab5acd1d5c3/6998c4ed83ec3708f2c7a6a7/GettyImages-2204481955.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- # Stunning Photos Show the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse in All Its Glory ## Video: Watch: The Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse Sky Show [Watch (HLS stream): Watch: The Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse Sky Show](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tQDwqmA5.m3u8) (1:48)  _Published 2025-03-14. In the Americas alone more than one billion people in 35 countries could bear witness to the total lunar eclipse that played out overhead from late night Thursday to the early hours of Friday. Tens of millions more in New Zealand and parts of Africa, Europe, and Russia could take in the sky show too. The performance was the result of the orbit of the Earth carrying it between the sun and the moon in a perfect alignment that temporarily blocked the sunlight that usually reflects off of the lunar surface, giving it its glow. In its place fell a deep shadow._ Mar 14, 2025 4:26 PM CUT  by [Jeffrey Kluger](/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Mar 14, 2025 4:26 PM CUT In the Americas alone [more than one billion people](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-how-populations-have-changed-in-the-americas-1990-2023/#:~:text=Currently%20more%20than%20one%20billion,Population%20Prospects%20from%20the%20UN. "undefined") in 35 countries could bear witness to the total lunar eclipse that played out overhead from late night Thursday to the early hours of Friday. [Tens of millions more](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/science/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon.html "undefined") in New Zealand and parts of Africa, Europe, and Russia could take in the sky show too. The performance was the result of the orbit of the Earth carrying it between the sun and the moon in a perfect alignment that temporarily blocked the sunlight that usually reflects off of the lunar surface, giving it its glow. In its place fell a deep shadow. But the moon did not vanish from the sky entirely. Bright white sunlight contains all of the colors of the visible spectrum—colors that break apart and spill out when the light passes through a prism or through the sky after a storm, producing a dazzling rainbow. During the eclipse, the sunlight the Earth was blocking similarly separated into its constituent colors, with blue wavelengths being scattered through the atmosphere, while longer red wavelengths passed right through and traveled to the moon. The result: The darkened moon glowed a distinct orange-red—a phenomenon popularly called a blood moon. **Read More:** [_What to Know About the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse_](https://time.com/7266847/what-to-know-about-march-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse/ "undefined") The cosmic dance did not last long; the Earth continued on its orbital path and the moon began to brighten again after just over an hour. That was enough time, however, for countless professional and amateur photographers to capture dramatic pictures of the blood moon—images that are circulating around the world today. The eclipse was a little gift from the heavens to us. Here are some of the best images of that passing loveliness.  A thin layer of clouds cover a total lunar eclipse as it enters its peak stage in Arlington, Texas.Julio Cortez—AP  The Blood Moon lunar eclipse is seen behind the CN Tower in Toronto.Frank Gunn—The Canadian Press/AP  The Blood Moon darkens to its signature shade in the sky during a total lunar eclipse over central Wisconsin.Gabi Broekema—USA TODAY Network/Reuters  A Blood Moon is seen during a partial eclipse in the sky over Lake George near the Australian capital city of Canberra.Izhar Khan—AFP/Getty Images  A person is silhouetted against the rising full moon in the evening sky, in Los Angeles.Ringo Chiu—ZUMA Press Wire/Reuters  A total lunar eclipse is visible between skyscrapers in downtown Chicago.Kiichiro Sato—AP  People watch the lunar eclipse on a screen at an overnight camp at the Humboldt Planetarium, in Caracas, Venezuela.Leonardo Fernandez Viloria—Reuters  Totality of the total lunar eclipse in Brentwood, Tenn.Camden Hall—ZUMA Press Wire/Reuters  A partial lunar eclipse is seen during the Blood Moon lunar eclipse above Austin, Texas.Rick Kern—Getty Images  The moon during the Total Lunar Eclipse in Colima, Mexico.Leonardo Montecillo—Agencia Press South/Getty Images  The Blood Moon darkens to its signature shade in the sky during a total lunar eclipse over central Wisconsin.Gabi Broekema—USA TODAY Network/Reuters ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7268274/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7268274/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-photos/"},"headline":"Stunning Photos Show the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse in All Its Glory","datePublished":"2025-03-14T16:26:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-11T00:20:54.984Z","description":"In the Americas alone more than one billion people in 35 countries could bear witness to the total lunar eclipse.","url":"https://time.com/7268274/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-photos/","keywords":["Space","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeffrey Kluger","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7268274/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-photos/","name":"Stunning Photos Show the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse in All Its Glory"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch: The Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse Sky Show","description":"In the Americas alone more than one billion people in 35 countries could bear witness to the total lunar eclipse that played out overhead from late night Thursday to the early hours of Friday. 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