St. Louis Science Center: Astronomy Fact Of The Day: March 16, 2022

St. Louis MO

16 March, 2022

10:31 AM

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Press release from St. Louis Science Center: March 16, 2022 The moon is slowly moving away from Earth. This means that eventually (in millions of years), it will be too far away to completely cover the solar disc during an eclipse, and total solar eclipses will be a thing of the past. Instead, all that would be visible are partial and annular eclipses. An annular eclipse occurs when the moon is farthest from the Earth in its orbit and only covers a portion of the solar disc, leaving a ring around the moon. This press release was produced by St. Louis Science Center. The views expressed here are the author's own.