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People set up their viewing equipment in Exmouth, Australia ahead of the solar eclipse on Thursday April 20, 2023. The lucky few on the way to the hybrid solar eclipse will be plunged into total eclipse darkness or they will see a “ring of fire” where the sun peeks out from behind the moon. (Photo by Aaron Bunch/AAP via AP)
A rare solar eclipse will pass through remote parts of Australia, Indonesia and Timor Leste on Thursday.
The lucky few on the path to a hybrid solar eclipse will be plunged into the darkness of a total eclipse or witness the “ring of fire” as the sun appears behind the moon.
This eclipse path From the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, most of it is over water. For those watching the total eclipse, it will last just over a minute.
Such celestial events occur about once a decade: most recently in 2013 and the next decade until 2031. They occur when Earth is at a “sweet spot” such that the moon and sun have roughly the same size in space, said NASA solar expert Michael Kirk. . .
At some point, the moon comes a little closer and blocks the sun in a total eclipse. But when the moon is a little further away, it lets sunlight through the annular eclipse.
“It’s a crazy phenomenon,” Kirk said. “You actually watched the moon grow in the sky.”
People out of the way of the eclipse can still watch remotely: multiple locations in Australia will be streaming the event online, including Perth Observatory And Gravity Discovery Center and Observatory.
It will be easy to catch many of the upcoming solar eclipses. This eclipse ring In mid-October there was a total solar eclipse next april Both will cross millions of people in America.
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