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It does not. There are generally two solar eclipses and two lunar eclipses each year. Because the alignment of the Earth, Moon and Sun is rarely precisely right, we sometimes get two partial eclipses instead of a single total eclipse, but on average, two per year.

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Usually once or twice a year.

Usually once or twice a year.

Usually once or twice a year.

Usually once or twice a year.

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The sun comes in the middle of the earth and moon and so causing a solar eclipse.

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