The Sun is Doing That Weird Thing Again
You know the thing I mean, when it suddenly goes dark in the middle of the day and looks all fiery. Stars come out in the daytime and animals go crazy. When silly people pray extra hard for some reason. I swear the Moon is involved. It looks like this…. Ah yes the solar eclipse, the rare event that only occurs because the Sun is both 400 times wider and 400 times more distant than the Moon. It’s a mathematically beautiful event that only occurs every 5 years on average. And when it does happen, the total coverage of the...