The eclipse reached its darkest phase around 10:44 p.m. ET when the full moon was partially covered by the umbra, which is the Earth’s darkest shadow. NASA said the spectacle looks like the shadow is taking “a bite out” of part of the moon. The moon exited the Earth’s shadow at 11:16 p.m. ET.
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The harvest moon usually happens around Sept. 22 or 23 each year. Supermoons occur three to four times a year and appear up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter at its closest point to Earth than when it’s farthest away from Earth. People can also view partial lunar eclipses at least twice a year. But seeing all three celestial events together is rare.
The rare sky show was visible over much of North and South America, as well as Asia, Africa and Europe.
The next lunar eclipse — a total lunar eclipse — is set to take place March 13-14, 2025, according to Space.com.
Here’s a look at Tuesday evening’s rare supermoon lunar eclipse.
A supermoon rises behind clouds over Larnaca international airport in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Tueasday Sept. 17. (Petros Karadjias/AP)
Cormorants are silhouetted against the full moon in Qiqihar, China, on Tuesday. (Wang Yonggang/Xinhua via AP)
The moon rises through clouds over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Camden, Maine, on Tuesday. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)
The full moon rises behind the Nanjing Yuejiang Tower in Nanjing, China on Tuesday. (Stringer/AFP via Getty Images)
People look at the full moon at the Samalayuca Dunes near Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Tuesday. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)
A harvest supermoon rises over a lighthouse in Scituate, Mass., on Tuesday. (Lauren Owens Lambert/Reuters)
A supermoon rises behind a horse statue atop of Triumphal Arc during a partial lunar eclipse in Moscow on Wednesday. (Pavel Bednyakov/AP)
Partial lunar eclipse is seen near the Kremlin and Russia's Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow on Wednesday. (Marina Lystseva/Reuters)
Climbers are silhouetted against the full moon near the summit of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia on Tuesday. (Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images)
A supermoon rises behind Camlica tower in Istanbul on Tuesday. (Khalil Hamra/AP)
A partial eclipse darkens a rising supermoon in Nashville on Tuesday. (George Walker IV/AP)
The supermoon rises beyond the cross atop Saint Elias and Saint Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Catholic Cathedral, in Beirut on Tuesday. (Hassan AmmarAP)
The full harvest moon rises over "The Couple" sculpture at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland, England, on Tuesday. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP)
The supermoon in North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne, Germany on Wednesday. (Thomas Banneyer/picture alliance via Getty Images)
An angel weather vane atop a spire of the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, is silhouetted by the rising full moon, on Tuesday, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP)
The moon rises over Fingal Bay in Port Stephens north of Sydney on Wednesday. (Mark Baker/AP)
It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. “I can’t tell you how extraordinary it is,” said a joyful Anton van Helden, senior marine science adviser for New Zealand’s conservation agency, who gave the spade-toothed whale its name to distinguish it from other beaked species. Van Helden has studied beaked whales for 35 years, but Monday was the first time he has participated in a dissection of the spade-toothed variety.
New Zealand scientists on Monday began dissecting a whale considered the rarest in the world, a species so elusive that only seven specimens have ever been documented. "This one is the rarest of the rare -- only the seventh specimen known from anywhere in the world, and the first opportunity we have had to undertake a dissection like this."
The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate and share the data needed to manage that most accessible region of space, experts and industry insiders said. A United Nations panel on space traffic coordination in late October determined that urgent action was necessary and called for a comprehensive shared database of orbital objects as well as an international framework to track and manage them. More than 14,000 satellites including some 3,500 inactive surround the globe in low Earth orbit, showed data from U.S.-based Slingshot Aerospace.
"Even after all this time, I still can’t quite believe the authorities were more interested in my sex life than investigating a fatal swimming accident."
The Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, will attend three royal events tomorrow as the Amir of Qatar makes a state visit to the UK, Kensington Palace has confirmed
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