The Earth and moon have teamed up for the most epic #photobomb in history. Thanks to #NASA, we can see it all on video. Who doesn"t love a good #eclipse? - http://clapway.com/2015/09/16/earth-and-moon-photobomb123/

Solar and lunar eclipses are rare celestial events hosted by our skies. Every year, space enthusiasts eagerly wait for news about when the next eclipse will occur and where it will be visible from. It’s the kind of event that inspires outings with telescopes and cameras, in which people spend hours gazing up at the skies.

This September 13, a partial solar eclipse, where the moon appeared to take a bite of the sun, was visible from South Africa, Antarctica and the Southern Indian Ocean. Following the blood moon, the event marks the second solar eclipse of this year; from Antarctica, the sun was 79% covered at the highest point of the eclipse, while while Cape Town witnessed about 43% coverage.

A Different Kind of Unique Event

On September 14th, a similar event took place as NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory was routinely capturing images of the sun. The Observatory is not a stranger to eclipses; in fact, it sees dozens of Earth/Moon transits each year. This past Sunday, however, the Earth and the Moon moved past the sun in tandem, producing what may well be the greatest photobomb in recorded history. This is the first time they’ve coincided and been recorded doing so.

Photo Courtesy of NASA

Where’s the Footage of the Moon and Sun Photobomb?

The space agency recently posted a video of the event, which shows the moon transiting into the frame and the Earth blocking the observatory’s view completely. When the Earth (indicated by the fuzzy outline of its atmosphere, as opposed to the sharpness of the moon’s silhouette) does exit the frame, the very end of the moon is also caught heading out of the picture by the observatory.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory was launched in 2010, and its mission is to study solar activity in order to help researchers and scientists better comprehend how changes of the sun impact Earth, and the solar system. Its view of the Sun is mostly uninterrupted, save for Sunday’s extraordinary event.

The full video by NASA can be viewed here.

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Earth and Moon Team Up for the Best Photobomb

A Great American Eclipse In Less Than Two Years #eclipse #solareclipse #space - http://clapway.com/2015/08/25/great-american-eclipse234/

Get ready for what some are calling the Great American Eclipse: for the first time in decades, Americans will have a chance to see a total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017.

HOW TO WATCH IT

To see the solar eclipse personally, all you have to do is travel to the places where it is expected to be viewable. So, just go to any of the places in the eclipse’s predicted path. For details about what states you can see the eclipse in, check out the Great American Eclipse website. Its shadow will travel through all of these places at 2,400 miles per hour, so don’t waste any time!

WHAT IS A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE?

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon obscures the sun; a total solar eclipse occurs when the sun is totally obscured by the moon. During the total eclipse, the sun’s beautiful corona layer becomes visible. It does not happen whenever the moon is in its new moon position where it is between the Earth and the sun, but when it is in the perigee position.

As Jim Algar of Tech Times pointed out, the event itself is not uncommon, occurring about once every eighteen months, but often in remote parts of the Earth. Some “eclipse chasers” traveled to Easter Island in 2010 to view one; earlier this year, a total solar eclipse that was viewable in Norway’s Svalbard Islands attracted visitors to the spot in the North Atlantic.

THE ECLIPSE’S UNPRECEDENTED VISIBILITY

Often, the only people that get to see them are professionals who travel to the sites to study the phenomena, rather than regular observers. 12 million people live in the areas that the August 2017 eclipse will be visible to, which is partially why the Great American Eclipse will be such a remarkable event. Another reason is that it is thought by scientists that total solar eclipses are viewable in the same spot only once in every 375 years.

MORE ON TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES

Check out this infographic made by Space.com that visualizes solar eclipse to learn more about eclipses in general, as well as NASA’s page on the Great American Eclipse. Be sure to remember the date if you live in any of the states it will be visible to!

(PHOTO SOURCE: ©bigstockphoto.com/JohanSwanepoel)

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A Great American Eclipse In Less Than Two Years

Five Star System Is Not a Pun, but a Reality - http://clapway.com/2015/07/09/five-star-system-is-not-a-pun-but-a-reality654/

A New Star System Discovered

Yes, a new star system with five stars was found in by astronomers at the Open University in the UK. No, it is not a pun on the phrase “five-star.” There actually is a star systems with five suns around a huge center of gravity out there, and we’ve recently discovered it.

A Brief description of the five star system

The five star system, or a quintuple star system if you want to avoid confusion, was presented in Llandudno, Wales, at a National Astronomy Meeting at Veneu Crymru. The press release for this conference, which officially let the science community know about the amazing find among other great research, can be found here.

What’s even cooler about this five star system is that the stars are not all that is unique about the system. It is the fact that it has two binary stars that eclipse every now and then. If you thought one eclipse was cool, what about a double?

All experts agree, and even the layman can as well, that finding a five star system that is connected together as this one is, or even just a five star system alone, is extremely rare, not to mention extremely lucky.

Who found it?

Astronomers with the SuperWasp program, which has been successful in finding exoplanets over the years since it was started in 2003, found some additional eclipses one day in the light curve it was studying. The rest is history. The five star system is about 250 light years away from the constellation Ursa Major.

But any planets circling the stars wouldn’t sleep much

Why is that? Because there would be nothing but daylight most of the year, or the time it takes to complete one full cycle around the stars. There is some night, but that is for a very short time in comparison.

Many are excited by this new scientific find and await to see what further studies tell us. By studying this system, we can better understand how other systems like it get created in the variety of ways they do, and maybe even more about our origins.

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Five Star System Is Not a Pun, but a Reality