Skygazers with a clear view in North America and Europe were greeted with a celestial
treat in the early morning hours, as a total lunar eclipse transformed the Moon pink,
coppery or even a blood red. Coinciding with the northern hemisphere's mid-winter
solstice - for the first time in almost four centuries - the eclipse showed the Sun, the
Earth and its satellite as they directly aligned, with the Moon swinging into the cone
of shadow cast by its mother planet.
treat in the early morning hours, as a total lunar eclipse transformed the Moon pink,
coppery or even a blood red. Coinciding with the northern hemisphere's mid-winter
solstice - for the first time in almost four centuries - the eclipse showed the Sun, the
Earth and its satellite as they directly aligned, with the Moon swinging into the cone
of shadow cast by its mother planet.
A picture taken in Manassas, Virginia, USA, shows the moon during the peak
of the total eclipse
of the total eclipse
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