NASA Spotlight: Rare Solar Eclipse Astronomical Photo of the Day

This week’s solar eclipse appears in a photo highlighted by NASA today, revealing the beginning, middle and end of the final phase of the phenomenon, observed in Australia

One solar eclipse of the hybrid type happened this week and appears in the photo highlighted by NASA on the website Astronomy Picture of the day this Friday (21). The sequence of three photos, taken in Australia, shows the beginning, middle and end of the overall phase of the phenomenon.

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Occurred from the night of Wednesday (19) to Thursday, i eclipse was hybrid, that is, it combined partial, annular and total eclipses. The event took place at 22:36 Brasilia time and, since it was night in our country, it was not visible here.

Luckily, you can check out some of them in the images below:

The top, center and bottom photos of the composition show the beginning, middle and end of the phase of the total eclipse. If you look closely, you’ll see that the first and last photos have solar prominences and small rays of light, visible near the edge of the lunar disk.

The photo in the center shows the solar corona, the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere. It is normally obscured by light from our star, but can be observed during total solar eclipses – in this case, the total passage lasted 62 seconds. When the Moon passes between the Earth and our star, it hides the light of the Sun and allows us to observe the clear glow of the corona.

What are solar eclipses?

Solar eclipses occur when the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth, hiding the Sun and casting its shadow on the Earth. For this, the three bodies must be aligned as much as possible in a straight line, which happens when the Moon is there new stage.

There are several types of solar eclipses. Among these is the partial, which occurs when the Moon hides only part of the solar disk and casts its penumbra from the Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon does not completely cover the Sun and the edges of its disk are still visible, forming a “ring of fire” around the lunar umbra. In total solar eclipses, the Moon completely covers the Sun.

Finally, we come to the hybrid type, which is what happened this week. As the name suggests, it can be zero or full, varying depending on where the observer is. We say they are rare because they occur about once every ten years, as they need the Sun and Moon to be at a specific distance from our planet.

Source: APOD

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