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What's the difference between a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse?
In contrast, during a total solar eclipse — which is preceded by a partial eclipse — the moon completely covers the sun, ...
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The moon will be unusually high in the sky tomorrow. Here's why
Our four seasons are the by-product of the 23.5 degree ... and 23.5 degrees south as it circles around the sky along the ecliptic. The sun's changing declination is what determines whether the ...
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7 planets are aligned in the night sky right now. But what's that mean for science?
That path is called the ecliptic, and it exists because all planets in our solar ... The movement of constellations, for example, heralds the change of seasons, and thus can be used as an agricultural ...
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China to send a spacecraft out of the ecliptic to study the Sun’s poles
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC HELSINKI — China plans to send a space observatory out of the plane of the ecliptic for a mission to study the poles of the sun. The Solar Polar Orbit Observatory ...