Explanation of the solar eclipse?
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The moon gets in the way of our view of the sun. Since coincidentally, the two disks (i.e., two-dimensional view of a sphere) have the same apparent size when viewed from the earth, the moon covers most of the sun, exposing the corona, which is normally invisible. The corona is the thinner part of the sun which is not normally visible because of the glare from the main disc.
However, here's an interesting question: how far out in space would you have to be before looking at our sun (call him Sol), you would just see a bright star, and part of that star would be the earth? That is, when we say "the solar system" to include ourselves and everything out to Pluto, an observer from far out in space would just say "Sol," and mean to include us. Jefferson Starship sang, "We rode a bubble through the sun . . ."
When the moon moves between the sun and the earth, it is just so happens that the lunar disk is big enough to block the solar disk; it throwas a shadow, which we experience as semidarkness, the hush of birds songs.
It is a solar powered Mitsubishi
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