The solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes before the sun, casting a huge shadow on Earth.

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There is a total solar eclipse this year on 23 November but it will only be visible from Antarctica.

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Einstein's theory was first and dramatically confirmed during a solar eclipse within four years of its publication, making him an instant celebrity.

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That at least is how Hindu myth explains the solar eclipse.

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Rose's sell signal came on April 7, one day before the solar eclipse and represented a change from the astrologically inspired buy signal last Oct. 22.

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Foreigners who visited Jiuquan on August 1st to view a total solar eclipse from a site nearby had to register with the police to use the road.

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Three years later a British physicist, Arthur Eddington, watched what happened to light from stars that were close in the sky to the sun during a solar eclipse.

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People in a much larger region of the world can anticipate seeing a partial solar eclipse, in which the moon blocks only a fraction of the sun's disk.

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During his 32nd solar eclipse observation, the Harvard-trained astronomer is to study the elusive coronal ring, the outer atmosphere of the sun, which can only be seen when the moon blots out the solar disk.

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For viewing the total eclipse, the best places on terra firma are in central Africa, where the eclipse will last four minutes or longer -- more than twice as long as the last total solar eclipse in 1999.

CNN: Africa awaits total eclipse of the sun