A total lunar eclipse graced the sky on Sunday, over Santiago providing a night-time thrill for stargazers in Chile’s capital.
The moon was bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises for about an hour and a half.
It was one of the longest totalities of the decade and the first so-called “blood moon” in a year. Observers in the eastern half of North America and all of Central and South America had prime seats for the whole show, weather permitting.
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Partial stages of the eclipse were visible across Africa, Europe and the Middle East, but Alaska, Asia and Australia missed out on the celestial show.
A total eclipse occurs when Earth passes directly between the moon and the sun and casts a shadow on our constant, cosmic companion.
The moon was expected to be 225,000 miles (362,000 kilometres) away at the peak of the eclipse.
