{"id":501309,"date":"2026-03-03T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501309\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:52:08","slug":"photos-march-blood-moon-illuminates-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501309\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: March blood moon illuminates the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total lunar eclipse, or blood moon, made the satellite glow red on Tuesday across Asia, Australia, the Pacific and the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>Often referred to as a blood moon, the event occurs when Earth moves directly between the sun and the moon, casting a shadow on the satellite\u2019s surface and causing it to appear crimson.<\/p>\n<p>This eclipse was the last of three consecutive total lunar eclipses; the first occurred in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/13\/science\/total-lunar-eclipse-full-blood-moon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 2025<\/a> and the second took place in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/06\/science\/lunar-eclipse-full-corn-moon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 2025<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>You can look at some images from this latest eclipse in this gallery. But don&#8217;t hold your breath for the next one, as it won\u2019t occur until December 31, 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A total lunar eclipse, or blood moon, made the satellite glow red on Tuesday across Asia, Australia, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-501309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}