Shortly before dawn this morning, the second total lunar eclipse of this year was visible in the sky over Dallas.
Dallas Morning News photographer Tom Fox was out this morning and took the photo above as the “blood moon” created by the eclipse hung in the sky behind one of the gargoyles on the Old Red Courthouse in downtown Dallas. The photo gallery behind it, courtesy of photo editor David Guzman, pulls together a couple of Tom’s best shots of the eclipse along with a few others from around the world.
National Geographic explains that the “blood moon” appears during the full phase of the eclipse, when “sunlight shining through the ring of Earth’s dusty atmosphere is bent, or refracted,” causing the red light to be cast onto the moon’s surface.