eclipse
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The crew have reported in vivid detail features of the lunar surface and later witnessed a solar eclipse as well as meteorite impacts.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
When the helmsman said that it didn’t, Pericles asked, “so, where’s the difference between this and the eclipse, except that something bigger than my cape has blotted out the sun?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
As a final show, or perhaps a goodbye, the moon temporarily blocked out the sun: a lunar eclipse.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
The second photograph shows the spectacular solar eclipse to which the astronauts were treated as the Moon blocked out the Sun.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
But after photographs of the 1919 total eclipse showed that light bent as it passed the sun, the facts proved without a doubt that Einstein was right!
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing eclipse
Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 2
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