When the Sun, Moon and Earth are in a straight line, this condition is called Solar Eclipse. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon comes between the Earth and the Sun and completely covers the Sun. This event can only be seen when the Sun, Moon and Earth are in line and the Moon completely covers the Sun between the Earth.
When these three bodies line up, it's called an eclipse. It's called a solar eclipse when the moon lines up between the earth and the sun. It's called a lunar eclipse when the earth lines up between the sun and the moon.
Firstly , there is the Cosmic center of the physical Cosmos. And then the galactic center of the Milky Way galaxy. And the earth go around the sun. When the earth, the sun , the center of the galaxy and the center of the cosmos in alignment, something special will happen.
We would have what is called a "Total Solar Eclipse." The Most recent Total Solar Eclipse happened in 1487. The Next Total Solar Eclipse will happen in 2079. An interval of approx. 601 years. But for lack of better explanation, we would have a solar eclipse that we get annually.
An eclipse.
If the order is Sun, moon, Earth then its a solar eclipse.
If the order is Sun, Earth, Moon then its a lunar eclipse.
That planets never line up perfectly. But when they get close, the sun actually swings out slightly further than usual as a counterweight along the barycenter each of the planets orbit along.
With the moon and sun on the same side you get extra strong tides. With the sun and the moon on opposite sides you get extra weak tides. And you get solar or lunar eclipses.
there's an eclipse
The planets line up about every 10,000 years.
No. The planets CANNOT all "line up", because they all orbit in slightly different planes. We occasionally see one or two planets line up, but never more than three at once.
All the planets never lined up, but it was reported once that mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were lined up together.
All of the planets orbit the sun at different rates, closer planets orbit quickly, while further planets orbit more slowly. They are all more or less on the same plane, so their paths in the sky will be similar to each other as the earth rotates. They sometimes appear to line up in the sky every now and then as they orbit at their different rates.
The chances of the planets ever lining up are so statistically improbable that it is safe to say it will never happen. The actual chances of the planets ever lining up has been calculated to be about once every 8.6 x 1046 years. (That's once every 86 billion, trillion, trillion, trillion years.) Since the Sun will be gone in about 10 billion years, it is impossible for this to happen.
The planets line up about every 10,000 years.
no stupid. now why would we die when the planets line up?
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Its when all the planets line up
I think that the planets will not line up in 2008 because they are all out of orbit. i believe that there will not be solar eclipse in 2008
No. The planets all orbit the sun at different rates. In rare instance they roughly line up, but not on any particular side of the sun.
Never.
This will never happen.
No. The planets CANNOT all "line up", because they all orbit in slightly different planes. We occasionally see one or two planets line up, but never more than three at once.
All the planets never lined up, but it was reported once that mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were lined up together.
They don't. This is statistically impossible. All eight planets will never line up during the lifetime of the sun, which is about 10 billion years.
No, usually the planets are in different directions. Every few years two or three of them line up.