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The Solar Eclipse is celestial event wherein the moon passes between the Sun and Earth and blocks all or part of the vision of the sun for quite some time, as viewed from a given location. This happens only at new moon when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth in an alignment referred to as syzygy.


For 2017’s eclipse, the longest period when the moon completely blocks the sun from any given location along the path will be about two minutes and 40 seconds. The last time the contiguous U.S. saw a total eclipse was in 1979.

On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America was treated with an eclipse of the sun and everyone within the path of totality could see it. This path, where the moon completely covered the sun and its tenuous atmosphere, known as the corona, was seen by a number of people. Observers outside this path saw a partial solar eclipse where the moon covered a part of the sun's disk.
Last Updated:Apr 29, 2025, 03.39 PM IST

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