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2023年11月1日 Annular Solar Eclipse over Utah Image Credit & Copyright: MaryBeth Kiczenski Explanation: Part of the Sun disappeared earlier this month, but few people were worried. The missing part, which included the center from some locations, just went behind the Moon in what is known as an annular solar eclipse. Featured here is an eclipse sequence tak...
2023年10月16日 Eclipse Rings Image Credit & Copyright: Jerry Zhang (left), Baolong Chen (photographer) & Amber Zhang (right) Explanation: She knew everything but the question. She was well aware that there would be a complete annular eclipse of the Sun visible from their driving destination: Lake Abert in Oregon. She knew that the next ring-of-fire ec...
2023年10月1日 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 December of 2019, a group of photographers traveled to the United Arab Emirates and Rub al-Khali, the large...
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...
2023年9月17日 Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night) Explanation: What are those dark streaks in this composite image of a 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 center directly in front o...
2023年9月10日 An Annular Solar Eclipse over New Mexico Credit & Copyright: Colleen Pinski Explanation: What is this person doing? In 2012, an annular eclipse of the Sun was visible over a narrow path that crossed the northern Pacific Ocean and several western US states. In an annular solar eclipse, the Moon is too far from the Earth to block out the entire...