Sentences with phrase «number of solar eclipses»

This will be the fourth time that a new moon will orbit between the sun and Earth to cause a solar eclipse in 2011, just one eclipse shy of the maximum for the number of solar eclipses in a given year.

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Thanks to the sheer number of observers, solar physicists hope to learn more from this latest total solar eclipse than from any previous such event, and to use that knowledge to develop tools for next time.

The ESA is preparing a number of its orbital assets to observe Friday morning's solar eclipse, when the Moon will pass in front of the Sun's disk, blocking the light from our parent star in spectacular fashion.

Following its disastrous salmon spill, Cooke Aquaculture was slow to respond, misstated the number of escaped fish, and incorrectly blamed the net pen breach on high tides from a recent solar eclipse.