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the solar eclipse happens when the Moon Shadow Falls somewhere on the surface of Earth and a lunar eclipse is the opposite when the Earth's Shadow falls on the moon the truth Kings of the Shadow the dark Umbra and the partially shaded penumbra their placement determines which type of eclipse we can see from Earth but not all eclipses are made the most spectacular the one for your bucket list is a total eclipse of the Sun total solar eclipse begins as a partial eclipse you'll notice trees projecting the Crescent sun and shadows becoming sharper than normal the landscape darkens to a grey and you'll start to feel the temperature drop from the West the Moon Shadow Russia's towards you like a Silent Storm look up and you'll see the last sliver of the Suns sing like a diamond ring before it's broken into a string of beads by the moon's rough terrain now you can see the Pearly glow of the sun's Corona and the pink and red light hydrogen gas of the chromosphere together these make up the sun's outer atmosphere and a total solar eclipse is the only occasion you have to lay eyes on it this is totality and if you get a chance to see it you should the moon orbits Earth every 29 and a half days but we don't get it does every month that's because the moon's orbit isn't in line with Earth's orbit it's tilted about 5 degrees that doesn't seem like much but keep in mind that the scale of the model were showing you is way off if the Earth and Moon are this size the distance between them should be around 10 feet at this distance 5 degrees is enough to keep the Moon Shadow off of what's in the earth Shadow off the moon most months so why do we ever get eclipses because there are two points for the moon's orbit crosses the Suns plane called notes and as first moves along its annual orbit those points line up with the sun about twice a year as the moon passes between the Sun and Earth at that time we get a solar eclipse and when behind Earth at that time we get a lunar eclipse there are ton of orbital quirks that make predicting eclipses really complicated but in general will have a few solar and a few what are eclipses of some sort every year but you're more likely to see a total lunar eclipse in your lifetime than a total solar one the totality of a lunar eclipse can last well over hour and it's viewable for anyone on the night side of Earth the moon turns red during a total lunar eclipse because our planet's atmosphere scatters the blue or wavelengths wait while the longer red or wavelengths passed through or to put it another way a total lunar eclipse projects all of the world sunsets and sunrises on to the Moon total solar eclipses seem much more rare because totality last just a few minutes then although Earth gets a total solar eclipse every 18 on average each one is only viewable by less than half a percent of Earth's surface Eclipse Chasers travel all over the world to put themselves in the path of that shadow the total solar eclipse the moon precisely covers the Sun from the vantage point of some place on Earth this is possible because by coincidence the sun and the moon appear to be about the same S&R Sky while the sun is 400 times bigger than the moon it's also about 400 times farther away but this alignment isn't constant the moon has in a pickle orbit its size varies about 12% throughout the month when it's closer to us we can get total solar eclipses but less than 30% of solar eclipses are total more often we get partial eclipses where the alignment is a bit off or annular eclipses for the Moon is too far away to fully block the sun leaving a ring of sunlight around the in the far future Earth will only get annual and partial solar eclipses because our moon is moving further away we know that because Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong left mirror turn the 1969 astronomers bounce lasers off those mirrors to measure the moon's distance and that's how they found out that the Moon is moving away from Earth by more than 3 centimeters per year so in a billion years or so whatever creatures live here will witness or very last total solar eclipse free on the radio Funtastic total solar eclipse taken from the pictures above the clouds how much do marketing University Mall she's just fantastic a lot of early civilizations feared eclipses they were seen as an attack on the sun or moon by the forces of Darkness but now that we understand our place in space pictures are an occasion for all and for gratitude all over the Galaxy rocks are casting Shadows on other rocks but only here as far as We Know for someone to notice them
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