![]() ![]() Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. The sun is huge.This article needs additional citations for verification. If you wanted to justĬompare the sizes of the sun to the Earth and the moon, here you go. Would have something roughly the size of a beachīall to represent the sun. If we were to try to model the sun here, it is 400 times as far,ĭepending on your screen size, it would be a football field to the right of your screen and you The moon being roughly 240,000 miles away from Earth. Is a scaled representation of the Earth and the moon, With a little bit of awe, let's just appreciate how And we've talked a lotĪbout the sun, in fact, this entire video and the one before it is all about light from the sun. That, you can even think about what time of day it isĪnd you could figure out east, west, north, and south. Moon and tell which direction the sun is in and based on Look at the moon at night, you can usually look at the With a lot more information to think about how it's oriented So next time you look up at the moon, hopefully you are armed You see the penumbra, which would be kind of a partial shadow. Lines, you see the umbra, and between the blue lines, The moon happens to fall in the shadow of theĮarth and here once again, between the yellow Going to get a scenario of a lunar eclipse when The sun or five degrees below that and you're only Vary five degrees above the plane of the Earth and Of Earth from the sun, when the moon is what we wouldĬall a full moon position, and as we can see, it can Scenarios where the moon is on the other side The reason why we don't see a lunar eclipse every 28 days. Rotation of the Earth around the sun, that's also Rotation is at a five-degree angle with the plane of Now this is the exact same reason, the fact that the plane of its If you're in one of those areas, you will see the moon What you see in this dark blueĬolor, that is the penumbra, that is the outer shadow and Hundred miles where the moon completely blocks out the sun. On the solar eclipse, where that umbra is hitting the Earth, it might only be a few Over here in this picture, then the moon willĬompletely block out the sun and it turns out depending Moon, so if you are in, if you're at that point right Understanding a solar eclipse, what you see in those yellow lines, that's the umbra of the That I've drawn here and this is important for Now what you do see here,ĭepicted in this picture, would be a solar eclipse. Many times, the moon mightīe here or here or here and in those times, the When the moon is crossing through the plane of the The shadow of the moon will only fall on the Earth Rotation around the sun, often known as the ecliptic,Īnd five degrees below that. Vary up to five degrees above the plane of Earth's Sit exactly in this plane, it does not sit exactly in this plane, the moon's orbit is atĪ five-degree angle, is at a five-degree angle to this plane, so depending what time of year you are at and where the moon is in its cycle, the moon will often sitĪbove or below the plane of the Earth's orbit, so forĮxample, from the vantage point of the Earth, the moon will This is not drawn to scale by any means, this is theĮarth, and so the Earth is in its orbit, something like that, the moon's orbit does not Plane of the moon's rotation is at a five-degree angle with the plane of the Earth and the sun. Plane as the rotation of the Earth around the sun. The moon around the Earth is not in the exact same We do not have a solar eclipse every time we are in the new moon position is that the rotation of We can see it right over here and so this would be the new moon position where the moon is between Question, looking at the scale of the Earth and the moon, The light from the sun that's being reflected on the moon? So the big question is, whyĭon't we see a solar eclipse every new moon and whyĭon't we see a lunar eclipse every full moon? If we wanna ask the same Would typically see a full moon, the Earth is between the moon and the sun. When the moon is on the other side of the Earth, when we Out the sun in that scenario? And we also talked about Here, 93 million miles away, and so wouldn't the moon block In a new moon position? After all, the sun would be out Why doesn't that block out the sun every time we are Seeing the side of the moon that is not lit up. Point of view of someone standing on Earth, you're Sun, and so from the Earth's point of view, or from the New moon is when the moon is between the earth and the As the moon has its 28-dayĬycle around the Earth, we talked about how a Video, we asked ourselves a very important question. ![]()
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