Strange Universe

Strange Universe: Celestial Thanksgiving 11/27/22

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NASA/SDO/LRO/GSFC

The only two disks in our sky, the moon and sun, both appear the same size. This is true nowhere else. It alone creates total solar eclipses. In just a few tens of millions of years, the slowly spiraling-away moon will look too small to cover up the sun. Total solar eclipses are only happening now, when humans are around.