Question by cute_blondie_angel: Which regions, if any, of the United States will be able to see the Total Solar Eclipse tonight?
There is going to be a Total Solar Eclipse tonight, March 29th, from Brazil to Mongolia. Will anyone in the United States be able to see it? And if so, what time should I look?
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Answer by randyrandolahttp://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/TSE2006/TSE2006.html
Not in the US
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A total solar eclipse plunged northern Queensland into darkness for two minutes, delighting crowds packed on the beach in Cairns. Australians donned protective glasses as the clouds parted to allow them to witness one of nature's greatest phenomena -- a total eclipse of the sun. All eyes and cameras turned to the heavens over tropical north Queensland as the moon began moving between the Earth and the sun, like a small bite which gradually increases in size. Cloud cover threatened to spoil the party and huge cheers erupted when they parted to give tens of thousands of eclipse hunters a perfect view of totality -- when the moon completely covers the sun and a faint halo or corona appears. The path of the eclipse got under way shortly after daybreak when the moon's shadow, or umbra, fell in the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park in the Northern Territory, about 155 miles east of Darwin. The umbra then moved eastward before alighting in north Queensland -- one of the few places it could be viewed by humans and where tourists and scientists flocked to witness the region's first total solar eclipse in 1300 years. Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk Get the latest headlines www.telegraph.co.uk Subscribe to The Telegraph www.youtube.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and ...
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Which regions, if any, of the United States will be able to see the Total Solar Eclipse tonight?
Q&A: Atheists, don't you find it strange that the Moon blocks the Sun perfectly in a total solar eclipse?
Question by Wayne: Atheists, don't you find it strange that the Moon blocks the Sun perfectly in a total solar eclipse?
I've just finished watching a science documentary and I was shocked to learn how rare in the universe a total solar eclipse is. On Earth we are extremely lucky that the Moon is just the right distance from the Sun for it to cover it perfectly in a total solar eclipse. As soon as I learned that fact I knew God was the reason. There's no way it was a coincidence.
Atheists, don't you find it strange? Surely the truth is staring you right in the face and you are looking the other way?
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Answer by Atheist Santa ClausYes, but it was probably a coincidence. With a universe that has probably millions of trillions of planets, surely a few such planets got lucky and had a single moon that allowed a total eclipse?
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What is the phase of the Earth, as seen from the Moon, during a total solar eclipse?
Question by Lala: What is the phase of the Earth, as seen from the Moon, during a total solar eclipse?
What is the phase of the Earth, as seen from the Moon, during a total solar eclipse?
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Answer by TitoBobThe moon comes between the Earth and the Sun during a total solar eclipse, so the Earth, as seen from the moon, would be in full phase, while the moon is in new phase as seen from the Earth.
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