The rare Blood Moon total lunar eclipse started lighting up the sky late Thursday with a bright full Moon. Why it matters: It's the only lunar eclipse visible from the U.S. this year and the first total lunar eclipse since November 2022. Photos captured around the world late Thursday show a bright and illuminating Moon.

A total lunar eclipse will be viewable in the United States overnight into Friday morning, so some may want to pull an all-nighter to catch a good look at the rare celestial event, also known as the "blood moon.

"You come here to Adler, you can see all 360 degrees of the moon — even the stuff that we can't see here from earth," said Adler Planetarium astrophysicist Michael Zevin. On Thu