When sunlight hits Earth’s atmosphere during a lunar eclipse, light frequencies toward the blue end of the visible spectrum are scattered outward, away from Earth’s umbra, but those with longer wavelengths, toward the red part of the spectrum, are bent inward and cast onto the moon.

In a rare celestial event, March 2025 brings a full moon, a Blood Moon and a total lunar eclipse. Here's how and when to see it in metro Phoenix.

Earth’s shadow will block most of the light that illuminates the lunar surface, creating what is known as a blood moon.