{"id":30279,"date":"2024-10-01T16:54:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T11:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=30279"},"modified":"2024-10-01T16:54:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T11:24:41","slug":"annular-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/01-10-2024\/annular-solar-eclipse","title":{"rendered":"Annular Solar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus :GS1\/ Geography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On October 2, an annular solar eclipse will be visible in parts of South America, while a partial solar eclipse can be seen in regions including South America, Antarctica, North America, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, including Hawaii.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Solar eclipses<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Solar eclipses occur when the Sun, Moon, and Earth align, causing the Moon to pass between the Sun and Earth.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This alignment casts a shadow on Earth, partially or fully blocking the Sun&#8217;s light in certain areas.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eclipses are infrequent because the Moon&#8217;s orbit is not in the same plane as that of the Sun and Earth.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These alignments occur during &#8220;eclipse season,&#8221; which happens twice a year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Types<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Total Solar Eclipse:<\/strong> This occurs when the Moon completely blocks the Sun as it passes between the Sun and Earth. Observers in the center of the Moon\u2019s shadow will experience a total eclipse, where the sky darkens, and they can briefly remove their eclipse glasses to view the Sun\u2019s corona.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"4a4020\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Annular-Solar-Eclipse-jpg.webp\" alt=\"Annular Solar Eclipse\" class=\"not-transparent wp-image-30280\" style=\"--dominant-color: #4a4020; width:416px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Annular-Solar-Eclipse-jpg.webp 800w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Annular-Solar-Eclipse-300x240.webp 300w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Annular-Solar-Eclipse-768x613.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Annular Solar Eclipse<\/strong>: This happens when the Moon is at its farthest point from Earth, appearing smaller than the Sun and creating a &#8220;ring of fire&#8221; effect as it covers the center of the Sun.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Partial Solar Eclipse<\/strong>: In this type, the Sun, Moon, and Earth are not perfectly aligned, so only part of the Sun is obscured, giving it a crescent shape. Observers outside the path of totality or annularity will see a partial eclipse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hybrid Solar Eclipse:<\/strong> This occurs when the eclipse shifts between total and annular due to the curvature of the Earth&#8217;s surface as the Moon\u2019s shadow moves across the globe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:IE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 2, an annular solar eclipse will be visible in parts of South America, while a partial solar eclipse can be seen in regions including South America, Antarctica, North America, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, including Hawaii.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30294,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30279\/revisions\/30294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}