Residents of Lisbon regarded to the skies within the early hours of Friday morning as Portugal skilled a partial lunar eclipse.
Starting within the America’s, as much as 96 p.c of the moon was masked from Thursday night time into Friday morning. A lunar eclipse happens when Earth’s shadow passes throughout the moon, obscuring a part of its floor.
The occasion got here two weeks after a total solar eclipse crossed Greenland, Iceland and Spain.
Eclipses all the time journey in pairs because the solar, moon and Earth align so exactly that one obscures the opposite.
In a cosmic coincidence, the moon is 400 instances smaller than the solar, which is 400 instances farther away, making them seem the identical measurement.
The lunar eclipse was seen throughout components of North and South America, Europe, Africa and the Center East.
