{"id":311807,"date":"2026-03-04T01:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311807\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:47:10","slug":"photos-show-stunning-blood-moon-above-nz-skies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311807\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos show stunning blood moon above NZ skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space enthusiasts around the world have been treated to a rare total lunar eclipse overnight. <\/p>\n<p>Night owls in New Zealand headed out overnight to try and catch a glimpse of what\u2019s known as a blood moon.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon occurs when the earth lines up between the sun and the moon, casting a shadow onto the moon\u2019s surface that can appear coppery red.<\/p>\n<p>The moon was fully immersed in the earth\u2019s shadow just after midnight, and completed its eclipse just after 3am.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772588829_670_the-total-lunar-eclipse-on-march-4-IY62Z4ER4VCETPRAIHVXEOIMAY.jpg\" alt=\"The total lunar eclipse on March 4 \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">The total lunar eclipse on March 4  (Source: Hina Patel )<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand was one of the only countries able to see the eclipse for its entire duration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772588830_55_a-shadow-being-cast-over-the-moons-surface-as-seen-in-auckla-M2WHFMYVA5EYXBWEP2GMSDMU2Q.jpg\" alt=\"A shadow being cast over the moon's surface as seen in Auckland \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A shadow being cast over the moon&#8217;s surface as seen in Auckland  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>The blood moon could also be seen from Mexico and the Philippines. <\/p>\n<p>Did you capture the blood moon? Send your landscape photos to news@tvnz.co.nz with the subject moon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including Christchurch residents kicking up a stink, the US says it shot down an Iranian drone, and the hero teen who saved his whole family.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Space enthusiasts around the world have been treated to a rare total lunar eclipse overnight. Night owls in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-311807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}