The Great North American eclipse is coming on April 8th
eclipses have awed people since time out of mind. The first record of one, preserved on a clay tablet found at Ugarit, now in Syria, is believed from its age and location to describe either an eclipse that happened in 1375. Legendary explanations for eclipses include the Sun being eaten by dogs, frogs or dragons. The reality is more prosaic. Eclipses are caused by the Moon moving between Sun and Earth in a way that casts a shadow on part of Earth’s surface.
Solar eclipses may be either of these things, since the apparent sizes in the sky of Sun and Moon, viewed from Earth, are almost identical. Which appears bigger depends on how far each of the three bodies involved is from the other two at the moment in question. If the result is a transit, an eclipse is known as an annular because even at its maximum, a ring of the Sun’s luminous photosphere is still visible around the Moon. A total eclipse, though, is an occultation.
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