Eclipse

Obscuring of one celestial body by another, either by direct superposition or by the casting of a shadow. Solar eclipses are of three kinds, total (when the Moon completely eclipses the Sun), annular (when a complete ring of sunlight escapes around the edge of the Sun), and partial. Lunar eclipses are of two types, total and partial.


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