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Rising Over Louisiana
A partial lunar eclipse is visible over southern Louisiana on Aug. 28, 2026
NASA/Eric Bordelon
On Aug. 28, 2026 (the evening of Aug. 27 in some time zones), the Moon passed into Earth's shadow, creating a deep partial lunar eclipse. At the moment of greatest eclipse, 12:13 a.m. EDT, 96.3% of the Moon's disk was immersed in Earth's umbra-the central, darkest part of the shadow where sunlight is completely blocked. This stage of the eclipse was visible across much of the Americas (except Alaska and northwestern Canada), as well as western Europe and western Africa.
This image of the eclipse was captured in southern Louisiana, home to NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility-the nation's premier site for manufacturing and assembling large-scale space structures and systems, including the core stages of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket powering the Artemis program.
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