标签: solar eclipse

日出带环食

2023年9月24日 A Ring of Fire Sunrise Solar Eclipse Video Credit: Colin Legg & Geoff Sims; Music: Peter Nanasi Explanation: What’s rising above the horizon behind those clouds? It’s the Sun. Most sunrises don’t look like this, though, because most sunrises don’t include the Moon. In the early morning of 2013 May 10, however, from Wes...

在船上看日食

2023年4月29日 Solar Eclipse from a Ship Image Credit: Fred Espenak Explanation: Along a narrow path that mostly avoided landfall, the shadow of the New Moon raced across planet Earth’s southern hemisphere on April 20 to create a rare annular-total or hybrid solar eclipse. From the Indian Ocean off the coast of western Australia, ship-borne eclipse chasers...

西澳大利亚的日食

2023年4月21日 Solar Eclipse from Western Australia Image Credit & Copyright: Gwenaël Blanck Explanation: Along a narrow path that mostly avoided landfall, the shadow of the New Moon raced across planet Earth’s southern hemisphere on April 20 to create a rare annular-total or hybrid solar eclipse. A mere 62 seconds of totality could be seen though, wh...

火星的日食:火卫一凌日

2022年5月9日 A Martian Eclipse: Phobos Crosses the Sun Video Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, ASU MSSS, SSI Explanation: What’s that passing in front of the Sun? It looks like a moon, but it can’t be Earth’s Moon, because it isn’t round. It’s the Martian moon Phobos. The featured video was taken from the surface of Mars a month ago by th...

阿根廷上空的日偏食

2022年5月2日 Partial Solar Eclipse over Argentina Image Credit & Copyright: Aixa Andrada Explanation: What’s happened to the Sun? Two days ago, parts of South America were treated to a partial solar eclipse — where the Moon blocked out part of the Sun. The featured image shows an image of the partially eclipsed Sun through clouds as it was sett...

日食的狂喜

2022年1月7日 Ecstatic Solar Eclipse Image Credit & Copyright: Annie Schmidt (Point Blue Conservation Science) Explanation: A male Adelie penguin performed this Ecstatic Vocalization in silhouette during the December 4 solar eclipse, the final eclipse of 2021. Of course his Ecstatic Vocalization is a special display that male penguins use to claim their ter...

水面上的日食

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...

飞鸟与日食

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...

扭曲的日出带食

2021年06月06日 A Distorted Sunrise Eclipse Image Credit & Copyright: Elias Chasiotis Explanation: Yes, but have you ever seen a sunrise like this? Here, after initial cloudiness, the Sun appeared to rise in two pieces and during partial eclipse, causing the photographer to describe it as the most stunning sunrise of his life. The dark circle near the top o...