You should never watch a partial or annular solar eclipse with the naked eye. A solar eclipse is a beautiful ...

But because the moon's orbit is slightly tilted relative to Earth's orbit around the sun, it doesn't block out the sun on every orbit, hence why not every new moon results in a solar eclipse ...

From Earth, the cosmic lineup of the moon, Earth and sun caused the moon to appear with ... time photographed a solar eclipse from Earth's orbit as they flew over the Galapagos Islands.