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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]
The American ethnographer and anthropologist Victoria Bricker and her late husband and colleague Harvey Bricker, claim in their book "Astronomy in the Maya Codices" that by decoding pre-Columbian glyphs from the four Maya codices they discovered that pre-16th century Maya astronomers predicted the solar eclipse of July 11, 1991. [6]
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 ...
Sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico and Florida.Taken on 20 October 1968 from Apollo 7.. Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light.
A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Thursday, May 29, 1919, [1] with a magnitude of 1.0719. 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.
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 total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Saturday, June 8 and Sunday, June 9, 1918, [1] with a magnitude of 1.0292. 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.