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solar eclipse in the USA presented by

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science at NASA mark your calendar on

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Sunday May twentieth the Sun is going to

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turn into a ring of fire it's an annular

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solar eclipse the first one in the USA

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in almost 18 years an annular eclipse

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occurs when the moon passes directly in

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front of the Sun but the lunar disc is

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not quite wide enough to cover the

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entire star at maximum the moon forms a

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black hole in the center of the Sun the

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path of annual arity is a strip about

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300 kilometers wide and thousands of

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kilometers long it stretches from China

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and Japan across the Pacific Ocean to

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the middle of north america in the

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united states the afternoon sun will

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become a luminous ring in places such as

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Medford Oregon Chico California Reno

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Nevada st. George Utah Albuquerque New

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Mexico and Lubbock Texas outside of this

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relatively narrow zone the eclipse will

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be partial observers almost everywhere

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west of the Mississippi will see a

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crescent-shaped Sun as the moon passes

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by off-center I like to compare

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different types of eclipses on a scale

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of 1 to 10 as visual spectacles says

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NASA's leading eclipse expert Fred espa

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neck of the Goddard Space Flight Center

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if a partial eclipse is a 5 then an

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annular eclipse is at nine this event

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should not be confused with the total

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eclipse in a total eclipse the moon

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covers the entire surface of the Sun

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bringing an eerie Twilight to observers

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in the path of totality and revealing

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the sun's ghostly Corona on that scale

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of one to ten he adds a total eclipse is

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a million it's completely off the charts

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compared to any other astronomical event

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the next total eclipse in the USA is in

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the year 2017 until then may twentieth

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of this year we'll have to do annular

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eclipses have a special charm all their

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own during an annular eclipse sunbeams

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turn into little rings of light the best

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place to see this is on the Sun dappled

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ground beneath the leafy tree hundreds

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of circular shadows can be found there

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you can also make a handy solar

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projector by Criss crossing your fingers

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waffle style rays of light beaming

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through the

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apps will have the same shape as the

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Eclipse son be careful when looking

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directly at the Eclipse son cautions s

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panic the ring of sunlight during annual

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arity is blindingly bright even though

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as much as ninety-four percent of the

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sun's disk will be covered you still

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need to use a solar filter or some type

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of projection technique a number 14

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welder's glass is a good choice there

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are also many commercially available

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solar filters one of the unique things

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about this eclipse for watches in the

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USA is that the Sun will still be in

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deep partial eclipse at sunset making

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for some great photographic

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opportunities he continues in western

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Texas around Lubbock the Sun actually

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sets during the annular phase a swollen

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red Sun with a black hole in the middle

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maybe nine out of ten isn't so bad after

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