Blink and you might have missed it.

According to NASA, astarted at 6:16 a.m. EDT on Saturday and lasted only five minutes, making it the shortest eclipse in the 21st century.

The eclipse was visible in places around the world, including western North America, eastern Asia, the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand.

Full lunar eclipses are often called "blood moons," because of the red tint they adopt as sunsets and sunrises seen from the Earth reflect onto the surface of the moon.

This eclipse marks the third in a series of four lunar eclipses in a row.

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Lunar eclipse lights up New Zealand sky. (Getty)