Lunar eclipse

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the moon fell completely into Earth's shadow and turned a shade of red — either an astronomical delight or Election Day ...

During a lunar eclipse, what little sunlight that's left passes through Earth's atmosphere to get to the moon. A lunar eclipse happens when the sun, Earth and moon align. The phenomenon causes the moon to appear red, often nicknamed a "blood moon." Just over an hour later, the partial eclipse began — when, to the naked eye, it looks like a bite was being taken out of the moon. There will be partial lunar eclipses before then, [according to NASA](https://moon.nasa.gov/news/185/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-lunar-eclipse/).