Greenbelt, MD: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | One is called the umbra; the other is called the penumbra |
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Espenak, Fred March 24, 2008 | For 360 years, see Harrington, p |
, 2012, Illuminance during a solar eclipse with limb darkening: A mathematical model, in: Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society, vol.
The moon in front of the sun looks like a dark disk on top of a larger sun-colored disk | Dobson, Roger August 21, 1999 |
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[] An eclipse takes place when one heavenly body such as a moon or planet moves into the shadow of another heavenly body | There are two types of eclipses on Earth: an eclipse of the moon and an eclipse of the sun |
Sometimes when the moon orbits Earth, it moves between the sun and Earth | It does not block the entire view of the sun |
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The second shadow is called the penumbra pe NUM bruh | Greenbelt, MD: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |