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The theory was proven during the total solar eclipse of 1919 when British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington measured the distortion of background stars near the limb of the darkened sun.
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Jeffrey Kluger/greenbelt, TIME, 8 Feb. 2025
Coincidentally, Severnaya Zemlya is precisely where the planet's next solar eclipse — a total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026 — also ends at sunset.
March 29, 2025, solar eclipse path in Northwest Africa
Africa and Russia will be touched by this eclipse, but barely.
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025
The ‘phenomena’ list With the success of the 2024 total solar eclipse drawing mass travel along the path of totality, natural phenomena are set to dominate travel trends in 2025, predicts Geographic Expeditions.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2025
This will be done by creating artificial solar eclipses and while this is exciting for astronomers, the solar eclipses will not be visible to people on Earth.
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Chandelis Duster, NPR, 1 Jan. 2025
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First Known Use
1602, in the meaning defined above
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“Solar eclipse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solar%20eclipse. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
solar eclipse
noun
: an eclipse of the sun by the moon
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