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The universe's only coincidence so perfect it looks like a magic trick on cosmic scale.
means Eclipses are the plural of eclipse — events in which one celestial body passes into the shadow of another or blocks it from view, as when the Moon hides the Sun or the Earth's shadow swallows the Moon.
from From the Greek ékleipsis, meaning a 'failing,' an 'abandonment,' or a 'forsaking' — built from ek- ('out') and leípein ('to leave'). To the ancient eye, the Sun or Moon seemed to leave, to fail in its duty of shining. The word travelled through Latin eclipsis and Old French before settling into English, carrying that old sense of a light that has, for a moment, gone absent without leave.
- lucky math
- Sun is 400x bigger and 400x farther than moon
- borrowed time
- Moon drifts away; total eclipses end in 600 million years
- helium found
- Discovered in the sun's corona before found on Earth
- animal trick
- Birds fall silent, crickets sing at false dusk
- shadow speed
- The moon's shadow races at over 1,700 mph
totality august 21 2017 — total solar eclipse crossed usa from oregon to south carolina, 12.5 million people in path
bailey's beads 1842 — francis baily described beads of sunlight at eclipse totality, optical phenomenon now bears his name