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Solar Eclipse

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WE are about to observe another solar eclipse tomorrow at 09:06 am according to Pakistan standard time. In this article, I will try to make you understand easily, what actually solar eclipse is? An ancient and a superstitious concept was that solar eclipse is due to bad omens or it is because of some supernatural power. This is quite baseless according to the scientific point of view. Well…   Eclipse means to obscure the light from a star because of the motion of another celestial body (a planet or a moon) between the light and the observer. So, solar eclipse is something related to sun. What is going to happen tomorrow? The answer is that, Earth, Moon and the Sun will become aligned. The moon will block a part of light coming from sun so a shadow of moon will be casted tomorrow which can be observed from different parts of the globe. Have you ever thought why only a part of light from sun will be blocked, why not all of the light? That’s because of the orbit ...