What do u mean by solar eclipse?

Question

What do u mean by solar eclipse?

Answer 1

One consequence of the Moon's orbit about the Earth is that the Moon can shadow the Sun's light as viewed from the Earth, or the Moon can pass through the shadow cast by the Earth. The former is called a solar eclipse and the later is called a lunar eclipse. The small tilt of the Moon's orbit with respect to the plane of the ecliptic and the small eccentricity of the lunar orbit make such eclipses much less common than they would be otherwise, but partial or total eclipses are actually rather frequent.

Answer 2

A solar eclipse is a very rare thing to see. You have to be in the right place at the right time, but they usually don't last for very long either.

Basically speaking, a solar eclipse is when the moon comes between the sun and the earth. Only one place on the face of the earth can see this, since the moon is so small. It also doesn't happen that often, only once every, say 5 years, I think.

Solar eclipses look like the sun is black, with little white rays peeking out behind it.

There are three different kinds of solar eclipses, total, partial, and annular eclipses. To see any one of these kinds of solar eclipses is rare.

Click on this link to find more about solar eclipses and, if you are interested, you can watch clips of an actual solar eclipse!

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/...