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A solar eclipse is the outcome of the moon being perfectly alighted—a position called syzygy—between the sun and our beloved earth. Due to the massive distance between the moon and the sun, compared to orbit of our moon, as well as the sun-moon size differential, during this ra...
Three partial solar eclipses are seen in this movie from ESA’s Proba-2 Sun-watching satellite as it dipped in and out of the Moon’s shadow during a ‘hybrid’ solar eclipse in 2013. (Image credit: ESA) These are also called annular-total ("A-T") eclipses. This special type of ...
A solar eclipse is the outcome of the moon being perfectly alighted—a position called syzygy—between the sun and our beloved earth. Due to the massive distance between the moon and the sun, compared to orbit of our moon, as well as the sun-moon size differential, during this ...
So, what happens to your eyes if you watch the solar eclipse without protection? The retina doesn't have pain receptors, so when the rays of the sun burn the cells in your retina, you can't feel it. These cells cannot regenerate once they are gone. Symptoms of this include blurred vis...
So, what happens to your eyes if you watch the solar eclipse without protection? The retina doesn't have pain receptors, so when the rays of the sun burn the cells in your retina, you can't feel it. These cells cannot regenerate once they are gone. Symptoms of this include blurred vis...
So, what happens to your eyes if you watch the solar eclipse without protection? The retina doesn't have pain receptors, so when the rays of the sun burn the cells in your retina, you can't feel it. These cells cannot regenerate once they are gone. Symptoms of this include blurred vis...
North America is on the verge of another masking of the sun during a total solar eclipse. This one will last almost twice as long, with an even wider audience, than the eclipse that stretched coast-to-coast in 2017.
Every18 months or so—somewhere in the world—atotal solar eclipsetakes place. The total phase of the eclipse, where the Moon completely covers the Sun, is visible from along a narrowpath of totality. Typically, this path across the globe is around 15,000 km (9000 miles) long, but only...
You’ve heard the term ‘supermoon’ but what is it exactly? What makes the moon actually SUPER sometimes? Does it exert some special power over us when it shows up “supersized” in the sky? We have answers. There are a lot of myths about supermoons, especially since they’ve gained...