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Rare ‘blood moon’ delights 3 billion viewers around the world — see the best photos of the total lunar eclipse

They were seeing red. A total lunar eclipse was visible to more than three billion people in the sky on Tuesday morning, with the moon glowing a spectacular shade of blood-red.”It’s as if all of the world’s sunrises and sunsets are projected onto the moon,” NASA said in a statement, describing the phenomenon that occurs when the Earth sits between the moon and the sun.