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Lunar eclipse orbital diagram: Date: ... Lunareclipsediagram2.gif by Tom Ruen, and derivating from Image:Solar eclipse fr.svg: Author: ... You can propose images to ...
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]
The term eclipse is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface, or a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. However, it can also refer to such events beyond the Earth–Moon system: for example, a planet moving into the shadow cast by one of its moons, a moon ...
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🌞 Solar and Lunar Eclipses 🌚 During a solar eclipse , the moon moves between the sun and Earth , and the sun casts the dark central part of the moon’s shadow, the umbra , on Earth.
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This event marked the last opportunity to catch a total solar eclipse in the continental U.S. for approximately 20 years. These are some photos of the total solar eclipse in all of its glory.
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