{"id":8711,"date":"2020-06-22T14:19:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T08:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2020-06-22T14:19:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T08:49:39","slug":"solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Geography<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/scripts\/eclipseog.php?degree=Annular&amp;type=Solar%20Eclipse&amp;date=Jun%2021,%202020&amp;sr=0.262&amp;mr=0.261&amp;mx=0.000&amp;my=0.000&amp;hz=83.454\" alt=\"Annular Solar Eclipse on June 21, 2020\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022<strong> A rare celestial event, annular solar eclipse popularly called as ring of fire eclipse was visible on June 21, 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Key highlights:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/communications.oregonstate.edu\/sites\/communications.oregonstate.edu\/files\/solar_eclipse.png\" alt=\"What is a solar eclipse? | University Relations and Marketing ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An eclipse happens when the moon while orbiting the Earth, comes in between the sun and the Earth, due to which the moon blocks the sun\u2019s light from reaching the Earth, causing an eclipse of the sun or a solar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2022 There are three types of eclipses.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong> Total solar eclipse<\/strong> happens when the sun, moon and Earth are in a direct line. The dark silhouette of the Moon completely covers the intense bright light of the Sun. Only the much fainter solar corona is visible during a total eclipse which is known as a Totality.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5bd89d585cfd79a8af353ba7\/5bd8afef352f53e600378c05\/5be1efacf950b74c3328009c\/1541793116535\/Eclipse+Diagram-01.jpg?format=2500w\" alt=\"A SOLAR ECLIPSE IN THE HOLY CITY \u2014 MOLLY WICKHAM\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong> Partial solar eclipse<\/strong> happens when the shadow of the moon appears on a small part of the sun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.tadst.com\/gfx\/600x337\/lunar-nodes-02.png?1\" alt=\"Partial Solar Eclipses\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong> Annular solar eclipse,<\/strong> which happens when the moon is farthest from the Earth, which is why it seems smaller. In this type of an eclipse, the moon does not block the sun completely, but looks like a \u201cdark disk on top of a larger sun-colored disk\u201d forming a \u201cring of fire\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.tadst.com\/gfx\/1200x630\/annular-solar-eclipse.png?1\" alt=\"Annular Solar Eclipse\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Geography Why in news? \u2022 A rare celestial event, annular solar eclipse popularly called as ring of fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-8711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8712,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions\/8712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}