{"id":508367,"date":"2018-08-13T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=34a592ea01629c7b2618d3dbe960dad2"},"modified":"2018-08-13T04:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T08:55:00","slug":"two-partial-solar-eclipses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=508367","title":{"rendered":"Two partial solar eclipses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nESA’s Proba-2 satellite saw two partial solar eclipses on Saturday 11 August. \n<\/p>\n

\nThanks to a quirk of our cosmos, the Moon\u2019s average distance from Earth is just right for it to appear as the same size in the sky as the significantly larger Sun. Once in a while the Moon slides directly between Earth and the Sun such that it appears to cover our star completely, temporarily blocking out its light and creating a total solar eclipse for those along the narrow path cast by the Moon\u2019s shadow.\n<\/p>\n

\nBut sometimes the alignment is such that the Moon only partially covers the Sun\u2019s disc. Such a partial eclipse occurred on Saturday for observers located primarily in northern and eastern Europe, northern parts of North America, and some northern and western locations in Asia.\n<\/p>\n

\nESA\u2019s Sun-watching Proba-2 satellite orbits Earth about 14.5 times per day and with its constant change in viewing angle, it dipped in and out of the Moon\u2019s shadow twice during Saturday\u2019s eclipse. The two eclipses are seen in this movie. \n<\/p>\n

\nThe images were taken by the satellite\u2019s SWAP<\/u><\/a> camera, which works at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths to capture the Sun\u2019s hot turbulent atmosphere \u2013 the corona \u2013 at temperatures of about a million degrees, which can be seen in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\nESA’s Proba-2 satellite saw two partial solar eclipses on Saturday 11 August. \n<\/p>\n

\nThanks to a quirk of our cosmos, the Moon’s average distance from Earth is just right for it to appear as the same size in the sky as the significantly larger Sun. Once in a while the Moon slides directly between Earth and the Sun such that it appears to cover our star completely, temporarily blocking out its light and creating a total solar eclipse for those along the narrow path cast by the Moon’s shadow.\n<\/p>\n

\nBut sometimes the alignment is such that the Moon only partially covers the Sun’s disc. Such a partial eclipse occurred on Saturday for observers located primarily in northern and eastern Europe, northern parts of North America, and some northern and western locations in Asia.\n<\/p>\n

\nESA’s Sun-watching Proba-2 satellite orbits Earth about 14.5 times per day and with its constant change in viewing angle, it dipped in and out of the Moon’s shadow twice during Saturday’s eclipse. The two eclipses are seen in this movie. \n<\/p>\n

\nThe images were taken by the satellite’s SWAP<\/u><\/a> camera, which works at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths to capture the Sun’s hot turbulent atmosphere – the corona – at temperatures of about a million degrees, which can be seen in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508368,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508367\/revisions\/508368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}