A total solar eclipse is about take place, and the best place on earth to see it is a tiny town in Western Australia.
, said earlier this week. “The light goes really strange. You’ll spread your fingers out to cast a shadow and they’re curved, like talons. It’s so weird.”
“There are like these ripples of snakes racing across the ground in front of you. You’ll never see anything like that other than in a solar eclipse,” Finlay says. “That heralds the totality.”A solar eclipse occurs when the sun, moon and Earth form a “syzygy”, the moment when three celestial bodies line up perfectly ,A total eclipse occurs for people viewing the sun from the centre of the moon’s full shadow, or umbra.
Such celestial events happen about once every decade: The last one was in 2013 and the next one isn’t until 2031. They occur when Earth is in the “sweet spot” so the moon and the sun are almost the same size in the sky, said NASA solar expert Michael Kirk.
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