A look at the Great American Eclipse to take place on April 8.
An estimated 36 million Americans are expected to find themselves within the path of totality, as this event sweeps across the continent starting from Mexico on Monday, April 8, and making its journey over the United States and Eastern Canada.
Anita Dey, a representative from NASA, emphasized the profound impact of such celestial events, remarking,"It is truly awe-inspiring, and awe is very good for us; it’s good for our mental health; it takes us outside of ourselves." But why is this phenomenon so rare? While we witness a new moon every month, the moon's orbit is slightly tilted at a 5 degree angle relative to the Earth's orbit around the sun. Consequently, solar eclipses only occur when the moon's orbit intersects the plane of Earth's orbit around the sun at specific points called nodes.Adding to the cosmic intrigue, the sun is about 400 times larger than the moon, yet it is also approximately 400 times farther away from Earth.
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