Have you ever seen a solar eclipse? When the Moon blocks the Sun?
I have, we had one recently here on the east coast
Oh cool. In a total eclips the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. Was yours like that?
It was, we had to look at it very carefully so we did not burn our eyeballs
You don't want to damage your eyes. The Moon's orbit has a 5 degree tilt which is why solar eclipses only happen intermittently.
That makes sense, everyone seemed to enjoy it thouggh
term eclipse is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface, or a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. However, it can also refer to such events beyond the Earth–Moon system: for example, a planet moving into the shadow cast by one of its moons, a moon passing into the shadow cast by its host planet, or a moon passing into the shadow of another moon. A binary star system can also
Solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when a portion of the Earth is engulfed in a shadow cast by the Moon which fully or partially blocks ("occults") sunlight. This occurs when the Sun, Moon and Earth are aligned. Such alignment coincides with a new moon (syzygy) indicating the Moon is closest to the ecliptic plane. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured.
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