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The Solar Eclipse
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What is a solar eclipse?
A solar eclipse is an event which occurs about every 3 years. In this extrodonairy event, the moon passes over the sun to make the sun either black (total eclipse), black with an orange rim (annular eclipse) or partially black (partial eclipse).
What is a solar eclipse?
How does a solar eclipse happen?
Sometimes when the moon orbits the earth it gets in the way of the sun. The moon blocks the light of the sun and on earth we see a black sun.
Total Solar Eclipse
A total solar eclipse is only seen from one hemisphere of the earth. The sky turns black, as if it were night but instead of the moon there is the glowing sun in the middle of the sky. A total solar eclipse can only happen if the sun, moon and earth are in a direct line.
Total Solar Eclipse
Partial solar eclipse
A partial solar eclipse is when the sun, moon and earth aren't compeletely lined up. The sky will turn a sunset colour and the sun will appear to have a small part of it's surface covered. The next partial solar eclipse will occur 2018.
Annular solar eclipse
A annular solar eclipse is the same a total solar eclipse but the moon seems to be smaller. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon is farthest from the Earth. It does not cover the whole sun so it appears a black disk infront of the sun. This creates what looks like a orange rim around the moon.