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A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially.Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season in its new moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of Earth's orbit. [1]
A partial solar eclipse on December 14, 2001, viewed from Minnesota (Saros 132, Member 45) An annular solar eclipse on December 26, 2019, viewed from Nilambur, India (Saros 132, Member 46)
The solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, also known as the Great North American Eclipse, [1] [2] was a total solar eclipse visible across a band covering parts of North America, from Mexico to Canada and crossing the contiguous United States.
An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Thursday, June 10, 2021, [1] [2] [3] [4] with a magnitude of 0.9435. A solar eclipse ...
The full set of rings, imaged on 19 July 2013 as Saturn eclipses the Sun from the vantage of the Cassini orbiter, 1.2 million kilometres (3 ⁄ 4 million miles) distant. . Earth appears as a dot at 4 o'clock, between the G and E rings – with its brightness artificially exaggerated in this photog
Sunrise seen over the Atlantic Ocean through cirrus clouds on the Jersey Shore at Spring Lake, New Jersey, U.S.. Sunrise (or sunup) is the moment when the upper rim of the Sun appears on the horizon in the morning, [1] at the start of the Sun path.
December 4, 2002 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2002 December 04 at 04:52:27.3 UTC First Umbral External Contact
A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Monday, September 1 and Tuesday, September 2, 1997, [1] with a magnitude of 0.8988. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.