Eclipse

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Eclipse
An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object
moves into the shadow of another. The term is most often used do describe
either a solar eclipse, when the Moon’s shadow crosses the Earth’s surface,
or a lunar eclipse, when the moon moves into the shadow of earth.
Eclipse may occur when the Earth and Moon are aligned with the Sun and
the shadow of one body cast by the sun falls on the other. So at new moon
(or rather Dark moon), when the moon is in conjunction with the sun, the
moon may pass in front of the sun as seen from a narrow region on the
surface of the Earth and cause a solar eclipse. At full moon, when the moon
is in opposition to the sun, the moon may pass through the shadow of the
earth, and a lunar eclipse is visible from the night half of the earth.
An eclipse does not happen at every new of full moon, because a plane of
the orbit of the moon around the earth is tilted with respect to the plane of
the orbit of the earth around the sun, so as seen from the earth, when the
moon is nearest to the sun (new moon) or at largest distance (full moon), the
three bodies usually are not exactly on the same line.
Celestial  benda luar angkasa
Solar eclipse  gerhana matahari
Lunar eclipse  gerhana bulan
Eclipse  gerhana
Tilted  condong / miring
New moon  bulan muda
Full moon  bulan purnama
Visible  kelihatan, tampak

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