Why solar eclipse on a new moon day?
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This question could be very easily answered by looking up solar eclipses somewhere such as Wikipedia.
A solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the Earth and Sun, causing people on Earth to be completely or partially unable to see the sun, because the moon is in the way. This is able to happen in spite of the fact that the moon is much smaller than the sun, because while the sun is about 400 times bigger than the moon, it is also 400 times farther away from the Earth than the moon is.
The reason that a solar eclipse can only happen during the new moon is that the new moon phase is the only time when the moon is in between the Earth and Sun at all.
the eclipse is caused by the moon moving between the earth and the sun. That can only happen when the mon is in the position to be a new moon (or old moon)
In the full moon position thre can be a lunar eclipse
actually the full moon appears when sun and moon are in right opposite directions with the earth
I mean the total light from moon could be reflected back on to earth only while they are opposite to each other while a new moon day occurs when both sun and moon are at same side with the earth
But the solar eclipse would occur only because the moon comes in between te earth and the sun So when moon travels or comes in betwwen earth and the sun we feel that sun is bieng disappeared so the reflecting surface of the moon tend to be facing sun not earth ant bcos they are in same direction we have solar eclipse only on new moon day
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