It's the biggest since 1999According to the experts at BBC Science Focus, we have around two solar eclipses per year. Which might sound staggering because from our perspective, they are incredibly rare, right? How many times in your life can you say you’ve seen one compared to lunar eclipses?
Dr Alistair Gunn, a radio astronomer at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester explains: “A lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves through the shadow of the Earth, is visible from wherever the Moon is above th...
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