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What happens in a solar eclipse?

Every so often, in the middle of the day, the sky darkens, the air cools, and a black disc slides across the Sun until it's blotted out. For a few minutes, day turns to twilight. What's happening?

A total solar eclipse: the black disc of the Moon covering the Sun, ringed by the Sun's glowing white corona. — Photo: Brucewaters, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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