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COLUMN: Eclipses of Sun and Moon
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (127+ words) Published 5:30 am Wednesday, September 9, 2026 By Ken Tapping Columnist Solar eclipses occur at the time of the New Moon, when the Moon is between us and the Sun, and lunar eclipses at Full Moon, when the Earth passes between the Moon…...
Are We the Only People Who Get to See Solar Eclipses?
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (92+ words) Buttondown Are We the Only People Who Get to See Solar Eclipses? Earth’s not that unique…and we probably aren’t unique either. Given the sheer size of the universe, likely there are other people, on other planets, looking up at…...
Eyes to the Skies: August features partial eclipses of the sun and moon – WTOP News
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (996+ words) “Eyes to the Skies” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the next edition. Each…...
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Chasing the Moon's Shadow
1+ week, 21+ hour ago (279+ words) Explanation: Chasing the shadow of a New Moon, NASA’s WB-57F high altitude research aircraft took to the skies off the coast of Iceland on August 12 to observe a total solar eclipse. At 50,000 feet the aircraft was piloted along the precisely…...
A total solar eclipse depends on an extraordinary coincidence: the Sun is about 400 times wider than the Moon but also roughly 400 times farther away, making them appear almost exactly the same size. Other planets experience eclipses, but none in our Solar System is known to offer Earth’s near-perfect match—the Moon hiding the Sun’s bright surface while exposing its corona.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1499+ words) By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 5, 2026 · How we edit For a few minutes inside a narrow moving shadow, the brightest object in Earth’s sky becomes a black circle. Around it hangs a white, finely structured atmosphere…...
Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Eclipse and the Stork
1+ week, 2+ day ago (285+ words) Explanation: How do animals react to a total solar eclipse? The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the recent total solar eclipse. If you are lucky enough to experience a…...
E-News | WVU expert weighs in on partial lunar eclipse
1+ week, 4+ day ago (35+ words) enews.wvu.edu WVU expert weighs in on partial lunar eclipse For West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Jason Ybarra explains what a partial lunar eclipse is and is not....
Why the Recent Total Eclipse Looked Unusual
1+ week, 4+ day ago (344+ words) The corona in Spain was particularly golden 7:00 AM CDT on September 2, 2026 Usually, the corona, or the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere, appears bright white during a solar eclipse, as it remains visible outside of the moon’s silhouette. However, in…...
From the archives: Marines in Germany watch the sun during solar eclipse, 2015
1+ week, 4+ day ago (80+ words) (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes) Published 18 minutes ago · Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 20, 2015: Marine Sgt. Kyle Morgan and Staff Sgt. Alexander Hayes look at the partial solar eclipse through a filtered lens on Kleber Kaserne. Read more here. ‘I wanted to get…...
Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Plane Lunar Eclipse
1+ week, 4+ day ago (207+ words) Explanation: Did you need to be on the right side of this airplane to see this eclipse? No. Lunar eclipses are routinely seen from the half of the Earth facing the Moon when the eclipse occurs, making them some of…...