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There are four main types of solar eclipses: total, partial, annular, and hybrid. A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon completely blocks the sun. A partial solar eclipse happens when the moon only partially obscures the sun. An annular solar eclipse creates a ring of light around the moon. Rare hybrid eclipses begin as one type before transitioning to another. The type of solar eclipse depends on the alignment of the sun, moon, and Earth and the moon's distance from both Earth and the sun.

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Eclipse

There are four main types of solar eclipses: total, partial, annular, and hybrid. A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon completely blocks the sun. A partial solar eclipse happens when the moon only partially obscures the sun. An annular solar eclipse creates a ring of light around the moon. Rare hybrid eclipses begin as one type before transitioning to another. The type of solar eclipse depends on the alignment of the sun, moon, and Earth and the moon's distance from both Earth and the sun.

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Good morning to my fellow student, and Madam Rozzie.

Today I would like to share some


information about solar eclipse. Hope you guys can lend me just a few minutes, to let us have a short trip to
explore an interesting phenomenon in our space. In today speech, I would like to talk about different types of
solar eclipse and how do they occur.

Let’s start by talking about different types of solar eclipse. There are four different types of solar
eclipses depending on how the sun, moon and Earth are aligned at the time of the event:

Total solar eclipse: The sun is fully obscured by the moon.

Partial solar eclipse: The moon doesn't fully block the sun so only a portion of the sun is obscured. Here the
moon appears to take a "bite" out of the sun.

Annular solar eclipse: The moon is centred in front of the sun but doesn't cover the entirety of the surface (as
seen in a total solar eclipse). A "ring of fire" shines around the moon.

Hybrid solar eclipse: The rarest solar eclipse is a combination of a total and annular eclipse (sometimes known
as an A-T eclipse) and is produced when the moon's shadow moves across Earth. These begin as one type of
eclipse and transition to another.

Moving on to the causes of these types of solar eclipse,

A solar eclipse is caused by the moon passing between the sun and Earth, casting a shadow over Earth.

When the moon crosses the ecliptic — Earth's orbital plane — it is known as a lunar node. (The ecliptic or
ecliptic plane is the orbital plane of Earth around the Sun.) The distance at which the new moon approaches a
node will determine the type of solar eclipse. The type of solar eclipse is also affected by the moon's distance
from Earth and the distance between Earth and the sun.

Under these concepts,

A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, completely obscuring the face
of the sun. These solar eclipses are possible because the diameter of the sun is about 400 times that of the
moon, but also approximately 400 times farther away.

A partial solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and Earth when the trio is not perfectly
aligned. As a result, only the penumbra (the partial shadow) passes over, and the sun will be partially
obscured.

An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and Earth when it is near its farthest
point from Earth. At this distance, the moon appears smaller than the sun and doesn't cover the entire face of
the sun. Instead, a ring of light is created around the moon.

A rare hybrid solar eclipse occurs when the moon's distance from Earth is near its limits for the inner shadow
— the umbra — to reach Earth and because the planet is curved. Hybrid solar eclipses are also called annular-
total (A-T) eclipses. In most cases, a hybrid eclipse starts as an annular eclipse because the tip of the umbra
falls just short of making contact with Earth; then it becomes total because the roundness of the planet
reaches up and intercepts the shadow's tip near the middle of the path, then finally it returns to annular
toward the end of the path.

In conclusion, there are many different types of eclipse and also causes by different reason, not only
the Solar eclipse, there is also many different types of lunar eclipse. In my opinion, all of these Astronomical
Phenomenon are really interesting. There is a quick information is that we can know about the future eclipse
and the observable location through https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/

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