The Facts About Eclipses

Eclipses is describe in two ways - eclipse of the sun and the eclipse of the moon. When an eclipse occur to the sun, it is called the solar eclipse. On the other hand, when it occurs to the moon it is called the lunar eclipse. If the whole part is being covered, it is called the total eclipse. If only a part, it is called the partial eclipse. Here are more facts about these two kinds of eclipses. 

Solar Eclipses

A total eclipses of the sun only occurs when the sun, moon and our world aligns in a straight line. The tilt of the moon affects how many times it happens and thus, it only occurs twice a year. When the moon pushes itself between the Earth and the Sun, it will cast a shadow to the surface of the Earth. The center of the shadow is called the umbra. The surrounding circle is called the penumbra. The umbra moves from the west to the east 1, 600 kilometers per hour. And the only people who can see the eclipse are the one that is on its path. People should wear sunglasses to protect themselves from the rays of the sun while watching it happen, especially staring for  along period of time.

Lunar Eclipses

The earth always cast a shadow on the opposite side of the sun. As the earth rotates around the sun, the shadow also moves with it. The moon, in return, orbits the earth. About once in every 29 days, the moon overtakes the earth's shadow. When the moon passes through the earth's shadow, a lunar eclipse will happen. It can be seen during the night. If the moon passes through the umbra of the earth's shadow, it is called as the umbral eclipse. If it misses the umbra, ir is called as a penumbral. 

Moon Myths

When it comes to the moon, a lot of relations can be connected to each other. Here are the most interesting ones maybe you never heard of.


Full Moon makes a person mentally crazy

It's bee a long time ago that full moons are connected with incidents like sleepwalking, odd suicide, illegal activity, violence and werewolf transformations. The known Roman Moon Goddess is named Luna and this is where the words "lunatic" and "lunacy" was derived from her name. Until now, many health professionals, especially the doctors strongly agree to the connection between mania and the moon. Long time a go in England, people who commit crimes on the full moon are given light punishments.

There are Aliens living in the moon

An astronomer named Franz von Paula Gruithuisen believed that he saw a glimpse of the cities found in the moon using his telescope. He called them "lunarians". Many opposed him but a British astronomer and composer supported his belief. Until now, there are still instances when they see something strange on the moon especially if they are taken by videos and seen on photographs.

Fake Landing to the Moon

There had been many false beliefs and conspiracies about the Apollo landing to the moon and one of which is that they didn't really went to the moon and the NASA faked its exploration outer space. A lot of documents claimed that during that time, they were not advanced yet to be able to rocket themselves to the moon and returning home safe. One "evidence" was the fluttering flag even with the presence of vacuum in space.

Nazi Base on the Moon

From connection with the aliens, to the Illuminati and now to the moon itself. When the WWII ended, it was reported that German astronauts a highly-exclusive facility in the moon and Adolf Hitler's death was a fake. Instead, the people rumored that he fled to the moon and lived in an underground hideout.

Glowing Ball

Did you ever look up into the sky and wonder about that glowing ball? Did you ever asked questions in your mind on what it is all about and why is there at the first place? Here are some interesting facts about the moon.

The moon serves as a natural satellite and everyone knows that. However, you did not know how it became to that state. No one has found the answer on how it was formed and how it started. However, there are theories that suggest that the moon came from a gigantic collision between the earth and a rock as big as Mars that extracted a portion from the earth that became the moon. They say, this is the reason why moon is orbiting around the Earth and not other planets. However, it slowly drifting the moon by 3.8 cm away from our planet every year. So their theory was moon was really close to Earth million years ago and the moon looked actually bigger in the evening skies. But why does it look like a perfect circle? Is it or isn't it?

Actually it isn't a circle nor a sphere but it has a shape of an egg. 

However, the trees numbered 400 here on Earth came from the moon. It wasn't because of the theory of the collision. However, it was caused by astronaut who brought seeds from the surface of the moon. They are called Apollo Moon trees and they are growing in a good condition. Although, how did these seeds originated in the moon at the first place?

The moon is not really dead. Like the Earth, it generates earthquakes as well. However, these earthquakes are not deadly at all. Scientists said that probably the moon has a hot and molten core which generates them like how the core generates the Earth. So do you think the Moon should be considered as a planet?

And if moon was replaced with other planets instead