PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Last year, millions of people got to enjoy and view a total eclipse of the sun. This happened because the earth passed directly between the moon and the sun, and the ...

An imaginary line connecting the nodes through Earth’s center rotates around the planet every 18.6 years. When the Moon lies on a node, Earth, the Sun, and the Moon lie in the same plane.

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese moon explorer is up and running Monday ... leaving its solar panels unable to see the sun. But with the dawn of the lunar day, it appears that the probe has power.

We can’t see any portion of the lit-up Moon during this phase. (When the Sun and Moon exactly line up, as viewed from Earth, we get a special experience known as a solar eclipse.) You can ...

During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth will be perfectly positioned between the sun and moon, blocking most of ... shadow ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 14, residents and visitors in Cairns, in Queensland, Australia, will witness the moon ... of the sun are distorted by Earth’s turbulent atmosphere, producing wavy patterns ...

occurs when Earth is between the sun and moon and the three celestial objects line up in a row so that the moon passes into our planet’s shadow. When the moon is within the darkest part of Earth ...

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Only when all three bodies (sun, Earth and moon) are on a straight line occupying the plane of the ecliptic can an eclipse occur. Hence the name "ecliptic": the place where eclipses occur.