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2021年06月18日 Devil Horns from a Ring of Fire Image Credit & Copyright: Madhup Rathi Explanation: Atmospheric refraction flattened the solar disk and distorted its appearance in this telescopic view of an Atlantic sunrise on June 10. From Belmar, New Jersey on the US east coast, the scene was recorded at New Moon during this season’s annular solar e...
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...
2020 June 22 Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night) Explanation: What are those dark streaks in this composite image of yesterday’s solar eclipse? They are reversed shadows of mountains at the edge of the Moon. The center image, captured from Xiamen, China, has the Moon’s ce...
2020 June 15 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 We...
2020 February 10 Solar Eclipse over the UAE Image Credit & Copyright: Joshua Cripps Explanation: What’s happening behind that camel? A partial eclipse of the Sun. About six and a half weeks ago, the Moon passed completely in front of the Sun as seen from a narrow band on the Earth. Despite (surely) many camels being located in this narrow band, onl...
2020 January 13 A Desert Eclipse Image Credit & Copyright: Maxime Daviron Explanation: A good place to see a ring-of-fire eclipse, it seemed, would be from a desert. In a desert, there should be relatively few obscuring clouds and trees. Therefore late last December a group of photographers traveled to the United Arab Emirates and Rub al-Khali, the large...
