Avid sky watchers were in for a treat as a partial lunar eclipse occurred in the night sky theatre on Thursday. The earth's shadow swept past the moon turning a yellow shining full moon into a dim red one.
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The world will witness a rare astronomical event- a series of triple eclipses starting July 2009. The fist in the series of triple eclipses will be a lunar eclipse on July 7 which will be followed by a solar eclipse on July 22 and then a lunar eclipse on August 6.
Sky gazers are awaiting the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century on July 22 as it will provide a rare opportunity to witness the grand event for the people in west, central, east and north-east India. A total eclipse occurs when the sun is completely obscured by the moon. The intensely bright disk of the sun is replaced by the dark silhouette of the moon.The countries that will witness the path of the Moon's umbral shadow are India and Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan.
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The first solar eclipse of the current year would occur on January 15 and will be visible partially in major parts of the country, a city-based Space Sciences organisation said on Friday.
The total solar eclipse passing over some of Earth's most densely-populated regions on Wednesday may become the most viewed ever.
The eclipse was visible only partially all over India with only a very small part of the Sun being covered by the moon's disk.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's one-tonne Curiosity rover has captured the sharpest-ever images of a solar eclipse as seen from Mars.
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday took a dig at Rahul Gandhi over his mysterious "leave", saying even eclipses can be predicted but not the "appearance" of the Congress vice president.
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Special arrangements have also been made at several places, including the national capital, for people to take bath in rivers on the occasion.
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Millions of stargazers across India are waiting with baited breath, hoping heavy cloud and rain will not play spoilsport when the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century --an event described as a once-in-a-life time opportunity--can be seen today.
This year's last total lunar eclipse on Saturday presented a celestial spectacle for people all over the country, including those in the national capital, in the pre-dusk hours.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad's Abhishek Sharma says his good off-field bond with Australian opener Travis Head had translated into a successful partnership at the top of the order.
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It was the summer of 2006 (May 18). Writers' Building, then the state secretariat, was buzzing with journalists. The event marked the start of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's second term as chief minister. And in style, it got off with West Bengal bagging the small car plant, Nano.
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"The annular phase runs from 10.44 am (IST), when the eclipse begins in the Central African Republic to the end of the eclipse on the Chinese Yellow Sea coast at 14.29 pm (IST)," Tamilnadu Science and Technology Centre Executive Director Dr P Iyamperumal told PTI on Tuesday.
Call it sheer coincidence but it was at this very village, about 35 km from Patna, where the sixth-century Indian scientist used to spend a lot of his time. Amitabh Ghosh, director of Bihar council on science and technology, told rediff.com that it was here that Aryabhatta first revealed that the earth revolves around the sun and developed the concept of zero.
The Indian Institute of Astrophysics will set up a camp at Anji in China to conduct experiments on July 22, when a total solar eclipse will occur informed Professor Siraj Hasan, director of Bangalore based IIA.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Curiosity rover has beamed back a picture of its first solar eclipse from the surface of Mars, showing Phobos, one of the two moons orbiting the Red planet, moving across the face of the Sun.
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The series is now locked at 2-2 with Thursday's climax to come.
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Although there is growing pressure from the party rank and file that Priyanka Gandhi should play a lead role in electoral politics, the leadership will be constrained from giving in to these demands as her emergence would automatically eclipse Rahul Gandhi, notes Anita Katyal.
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