On Thursday night and through the early morning hours of Friday, the first lunar eclipse since 2022 took place, one of three total lunar eclipse events lined up for 2025 and 2026. A winter storm obscured Utahns' view of the event,

In the Americas alone more than one billion people in 35 countries could bear witness to the total lunar eclipse.

The only light that reaches the moon during a total lunar eclipse is light from the Earth's atmosphere, which projects onto the moon and gives it its reddish hue, USA TODAY previo