The super blood blue moon eclipse is seen from above Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA on on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News/SCNG

A helicopter pass under the super blood blue moon on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News/SCNG)

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The super blue moon eclipse over Dana Point on Wednesday, January 31, 2018. (Photo by Allison Jarrell)

The super blood blue moon starts to set towards the north west of Valencia CA, on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. . (Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News/SCNG

The super blood blue moon eclipse is seen from above Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA on on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News/SCNG



The super blood blue moon eclipse is seen from above Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA on on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News/SCNG

The super blood blue moon eclipse is seen from above Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA on on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News/SCNG

A partially-eclipsed super blue blood moon sets behind the Salesforce Tower on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, in San Francisco. It's the first time in 35 years a blue moon has synced up with a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse, also called a blood moon because of its red hue. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

The moon begins to set over Christopher Newport Hall in Newport News, Va., early Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. The super blue blood moon was visible for the first time in nearly 152 years. NASA refers to the super blue blood moon as a trio of lunar events all occurring at once: the second full moon in one calendar month (a blue moon), at its closest orbital approach to Earth (a supermoon) during a lunar eclipse (a blood moon). (Jonathon Gruenke /The Daily Press via AP)

A super blue blood moon rises behind the 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple on the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. On Wednesday, much of the world will get to see not only a blue moon which is a supermoon, but also a lunar eclipse, all rolled into one celestial phenomenon. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)



This photo combination shows the different stages of the "Super Blue Blood Moon" during a lunar eclipse is seen from the Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

The super blue moon eclipse over Los Angeles Wednesday, January 31, 2018. ( Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

The "Super Blue Blood Moon" eclipse is seen over Los Angeles early Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

The "Super Blue Blood Moon" eclipse is seen over Los Angeles early Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

The Earth's shadow covers the moon during the Super Blue Blood Moon eclipse as it occurs in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday, January 31, 2018, in North Tustin. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)



The Earth's shadow covers the moon during the Super Blue Blood Moon eclipse as it occurs in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday, January 31, 2018, in North Tustin. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

UCR Outreach Director, Mario De Leo-Winkler views his camera mounted telescope as about 150 people gathered around four telescopes set up in the center of UCR's campus early Wednesday morning to view the "super blue blood moon" eclipse in Riverside, Jan. 31, 2018. (Eric Reed/For The Press Enterprise/SCNG)

Student, Venki Rajsekar uses her cell phone to take a picture of the camera mounted on a telescope of the 'blood moon' as about 150 people gathered around four telescopes set up in the center of UCR's campus early Wednesday morning to view the "super blue blood moon" eclipse in Riverside, Jan. 31, 2018. (Eric Reed/For The Press Enterprise/SCNG)

About 150 people gathered around four telescopes set up in the center of UCR's campus early Wednesday morning to view the "super blue blood moon" eclipse in Riverside, Jan. 31, 2018. (Eric Reed/For The Press Enterprise/SCNG)

The lunar eclipse begins as about 150 people gathered around four telescopes set up in the center of UCR's campus early Wednesday morning to view the "super blue blood moon" eclipse in Riverside, Jan. 31, 2018. (Eric Reed/For The Press Enterprise/SCNG)



The lunar eclipse "blood moon" begins as about 150 people gathered around four telescopes set up in the center of UCR's campus early Wednesday morning to view the "super blue blood moon" eclipse in Riverside, Jan. 31, 2018. (Eric Reed/For The Press Enterprise/SCNG)

The lunar eclipse "blood moon" begins as about 150 people gathered around four telescopes set up in the center of UCR's campus early Wednesday morning to view the "super blue blood moon" eclipse in Riverside, Jan. 31, 2018. (Eric Reed/For The Press Enterprise/SCNG)

The EarthÕs shadow covers the moon during the Super Blue Blood Moon eclipse in Fullerton. (Photo by Bill McAulay)

Call it a lunar trifecta.

If you were up gazing at the sky early Wednesday morning, you likely saw three kinds of moon wrapped into one.

On Wednesday, much of the world got to see not only a blue moon and a supermoon, but also a total lunar eclipse.

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There hasn’t been a triple lineup like this since 1982 and the next won’t occur until 2037.

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The eclipse was visible best in the western half of the U.S. and Canada Wednesday morning, and across the Pacific into Asia as the moon rose Wednesday night into Thursday.

A blue moon is the second full moon in a month. A supermoon is a particularly close full or new moon, appearing somewhat brighter and bigger. A total lunar eclipse — or blood moon for its reddish tinge — has the moon completely bathed in Earth’s shadow.

“I’m calling it the Super Bowl of moons,” lunar scientist Noah Petro said Monday from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Others prefer “super blue blood moon.”

As the sun lines up perfectly with the Earth and then moon for the eclipse, scientists were planning to make observations from a telescope in Hawaii, while also collecting data from NASA’s moon-circling Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched in 2009.

Just like the total solar eclipse in the U.S. last August cooled the Earth’s surface, a lunar eclipse cools the moon’s surface. It’s this abrupt cooling — from the heat of direct sunlight to essentially a deep freeze — that researchers will be studying.

Totality lasted more than an hour.

“The moon is one of the most amazing objects in our solar system,” Petro said. “It really is the key to understanding the solar system, through interpreting the geology and surface of the moon.”

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The Associated Press contributed to this story.