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{{Short description|Total eclipse}} {{Infobox solar eclipse|1997Mar09 ...

...alculations on 90% of the difference in lunar [[apsis]] extremes for the [[solar year]]. In other words, a full or new moon is considered a supermoon if <m Occasionally, a supermoon coincides with a [[total lunar eclipse]]. The most recent occurrence of this by any definition was i ...

...rticular, the processes of production of the [[radiation]] coming from the solar corona and transition region, where the plasma is optically-thin. On the co The [[solar corona|corona]] extends much further than a solar radius from the [[photosphere]] and looks very complex and inhomogeneous in ...

...ies, and the sum of their masses. For a given orbital separation, a higher total system mass implies higher [[Orbital speed|orbital velocities]]. On the oth ...h> be the stellar masses, with <math>M_1 + M_2 = M_\mathrm{tot}</math> the total mass of the binary system, <math>v_1</math> and <math>v_2</math> the orbita ...

...ee [[Saros cycle|Saros]]), whose extent, duration, and appearance (whether total or annular) depend on the exact apparent diameter of the Moon. The apparent ...]s and eat the Sun or Moon during an [[eclipse]].{{sfn|Linton|2004|p=7}} A solar or lunar eclipse is possible only when the Moon is at or near either of the ...

...ar eclipse.tif|300px|thumb|The [[Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919|29 May 1919 solar eclipse]]]] ...trich/philosophy/docs/glymour/relativityeclipses.pdf |title=Relativity and eclipses: the British eclipse expeditions of 1919 and their predecessors |journal=Hi ...

| axis_unitless = {{solar radius|1.46|link=y}} ...iable star designation RR Caeli in 1984. There are very shallow secondary eclipses where the white dwarf transits across the red dwarf.<ref name="Bruch"/> ...

...he type of year used by [[Solar calendar#Tropical solar calendars|tropical solar calendar]]s. ...leap days]]) is designed so as to resynchronise the calendar year with the solar year at regular intervals. ...

...|first1=John |last2=Glymour |first2=Clark |year=1980 |title=Relativity and eclipses: the British eclipse expeditions of 1919 and their predecessors |url=https: ...egan.net}}</ref> Ordinary matter and antimatter colliding results in their total [[annihilation]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Antimatter |url=http://www.lbl.gov/ ...

[[File:Solar system scale-2.jpg|thumb|Approximate sizes of the planets relative to each ...f information that expressed the way the people of the time thought of the Solar System. ...

== Earth, the Solar System and the universe == {{See also|Formation and evolution of the Solar System|List of future astronomical events}} ...

...uadrant from Dunkirk to Barcelona (about 1000&nbsp;km, or one-tenth of the total) could be surveyed with start- and end-points at sea level, and that portio ...rth, and was the sexagesimal second of the ancients: a partitioning of the solar day into two cycles of 12 periods, and each period divided into 60 interval ...