What is Solar eclipse?
[[File:Solar eclips 1999 4.jpg |thumb |250px |right|Photo taken during the 1999 eclipse.]] As seen from [[earth]], a '''solar eclipse''' /''ee-klips''/ happens when the [[moon]] is directly between the earth and the [[sun]]. This makes the moon fully or partially (partly) cover the sun. Solar eclipses can only happen during a [[Phases of the Moon|new moon]]. Every year there are about two solar eclipses. Sometimes there are even five solar eclipses in a year. However, only two of these can be total solar eclipses,<ref>{{cite book |last= Littmann |first= Mark | author2= Fred Espenak, Ken Willcox | title = Totality: Eclipses of the Sun |url= https://archive.org/details/totalityeclipses00litt_550 | publisher= Oxford University Press |year= 2008 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/totalityeclipses00litt_550/page/n34 18]–19 | isbn= 978-0199532094}}</ref><ref>Five solar eclipses occurred in 1935. {{Cite book |chapter-url=http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SE1901-2000.html |last=[[NASA]] |chapter= Five Millennium Catalog of Solar Eclipses |date=6 September 2009 |url= http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html |title= NASA Eclipse Web Site |others=Fred Espenak, Project and Website Manager |accessdate= 26 January 2010}}</ref> and often a year will pass without a total eclipse. The area in which an eclipse is total is only a narrow track along the earth. Totality lasts only a few minutes. Outside this path, all eclipses are partial, and places far from the track get no eclipse at all. The track can be predicted many years before it happens. A total solar eclipse is a natural [[phenomenon]] (event). Long ago, solar eclipses were thought to happen because of something [[supernatural]] or as a sign that something bad was going to happen. This is still believed in some [[culture]]s today. A total solar eclipse can [[fear|frighten]] people who do not know what it means, because the sun seems to disappear during the day and the sky turns dark in just a few minutes. Other people like to go to the eclipse path for a good