By Adrianne Reece Mar 12, 2025 5:52 PMTags

Its totality volition past for astir 66 minutes, and volition visibly radiance crossed the Western Hemisphere, including North America, South America, Europe and Africa. (Hawaii and immoderate parts of Alaska volition miss the opening of the penumbral phase—when the satellite starts entering the Earth’s outer shadow—but volition beryllium capable to witnesser the remainder of the event, according to Space.com.)

Unlike the star eclipse, which has to beryllium viewed with peculiar glasses to support the eyes safe, this caller celestial infinitesimal tin beryllium seen with the bare eye—or done binoculars, if viewers privation a person look. NASA recommends observing the eclipse successful a acheronian spot distant from agleam lights. 

For those that can’t ticker the humor satellite in-person, Space.com noted that respective antithetic livestreams volition drawback the lawsuit successful full. These assorted options are necessary, considering this lunar eclipse is special. In fact, it’ll people the archetypal clip successful 3 years since the satellite glimmered successful its scarce hue successful 2022, and the adjacent 1 won’t look again until 2026. 

The Blood Worm isn’t the past uncommon juncture to grace the sky, arsenic a new satellite was pulled into the Earth’s orbit past September. At the time, the phenomenon—known arsenic an asteroid named 2024 PT5—was archetypal spotted by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) inaugural successful aboriginal August, who calculated the floating rock’s travel would past astir 2 months.