A total lunar eclipse and a super moon occurred simultaneously Sunday night.

The moon appeared to be the largest, brightest, and closest it had been in years.

The moon looked to be 30 percent larger than a regular full moon.

Noah Petro, deputy project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said, “There’s no physical difference in the moon. It just appears lightly bigger in the sky. It’s not dramatic, but it does look larger.”

The last blood moon and full eclipse occurred in 1982 and the next will not happen again until 2033.

A super moon, or perigee as astronomers often refer to it as, appears when the moon is at its fullest and when it is at its closest point in its orbit around Earth.

A lunar eclipse is when the earth, sun, and moon become perfectly aligned.

Because sunlight is scattered around the Earth’s atmosphere, a reddish silhouette glows around the dark eclipse.

Unlike a solar eclipse, staring at a lunar eclipse with the naked eye is not harmful which makes it even more remarkable.

The super moon eclipse lasted about one hour and could be seen in America, Asia, Europe and most parts of West Asia and the eastern Pacific.

Although it was only a short amount of time, this rare occurrence was truly a dazzling sight to see.