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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]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 February 2025. Astronomical event where one body is hidden by another For other uses, see Eclipse (disambiguation). "Total eclipse" redirects here. For other uses, see Total eclipse (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Eclipes. Totality during the 1999 solar eclipse. Solar prominences can be seen ...
Can’t wait until 2044? Here are the eclipses you can start planning for now.
A hybrid solar eclipse switches between annular and total. A partial solar eclipse happens when the moon only covers a portion of the sun. At least two solar eclipses happen each year, per NASA .
Solar eclipse: What time is the eclipse in OH, KY and IN? A list of start times for the tri-state area. MYTH: Total solar eclipses produce harmful radiation that can cause blindness.
Shadow bands observed during the total solar eclipse of 21 August 2017. The video shows a white sheet (36 x 66 inches, 0.91 x 1.7 meters) laid out on the ground under the sunlight. The shadow bands start faintly, grow dramatically intense as the remaining crescent of sunlight shrinks, and suddenly vanish at the moment of darkness of the total ...
An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit. [ 10 ] The partial solar eclipses on February 15, 2018 and August 11, 2018 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
The last solar eclipse, a partial eclipse, occurred in October and was an annular eclipse, meaning the moon passes between the sun and the Earth when it is farthest from the Earth.