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2021年06月12日 Eclipse on the Water Image Credit & Copyright: Elliot Severn Explanation: Eclipses tend to come in pairs. Twice a year, during an eclipse season that lasts about 34 days, Sun, Moon, and Earth can nearly align. Then the full and new phases of the Moon separated by just over 14 days create a lunar and a solar eclipse. Often partial eclipses ar...
2021年06月11日 Eclipse Flyby Image Credit & Copyright: Zev Hoover, Christian Lockwood, and Zoe Chakoian Explanation: On June 10 a New Moon passed in front of the Sun. In silhouette only two days after reaching apogee, the most distant point in its elliptical orbit, the Moon’s small apparent size helped create an annular solar eclipse. The brief but s...
2020 June 27 Eclipse under the ISS Image Credit: NASA ISS Expedition 63 Explanation: The dark shadow of the New Moon reached out and touched planet Earth on June 21. A high definition camera outside the International Space Station captured its passing in this snapshot from low Earth orbit near the border of Kazakhstan and China. Of course those along the Moo...
2020 June 26 Eclipse under the Bamboo Image Credit & Copyright: Somak Raychaudhury (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics) Explanation: Want to watch a solar eclipse safely? Try looking down instead of up, though you might discover you have a plethora of images to choose from. For example, during the June 21st solar eclipse this conf...
2020 June 25 Eclipse Street, Hong Kong Image Credit & Copyright: Gary Chan Explanation: On June 21 an annular solar eclipse came soon after the solstice and our fair planet’s northernmost sunset for 2020. At maximum eclipse, the New Moon in silhouette created a ring of fire visible along a narrow path at most 85 kilometers wide. The annular eclips...