Early Friday morning, the Earth moved between the sun and the moon, casting its shadow on the lunar surface and turning it into a full blood moon. It was quite early in the morning, though. Like 1 a.m.

Late on Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday, the full moon turned a beautiful reddish color as it drifted through Earth’s shadow in a total lunar eclipse.

Stargazers on nearly one half of the world witnessed a total lunar eclipse overnight, as a rare cosmic lineup caused the moon to turn a shade of red.