Solar Eclipse

Solar Eclipse - A celestial event that occurs during daytime hours when the Sun, Moon, and Earth align, blocking some or all of the Sun’s light as viewed from a particular vantage point on the Earth.

This image is of the Moon crossing over the Sun’s disk, blocking all of the Sun’s light during this total solar eclipse as viewed from a small Indonesian island.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160315.html

Author: Tal Harrel, UCF Undergraduate 2017
Editor: Patrick Joiner, UCF Interdisciplinary Studies, Class of 2018
Senior Editor: M.M. Montgomery, Ph.D, UCF Physics