Sam Iglesias
@sam
it’s a wild fact that the sun and the moon are the same size when seen from Earth **by sheer coincidence**. The sun is 400 times bigger than the moon but the moon is 400 times closer. so when they meet and make shadow…
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Ludo Landry
@ludo
And sometimes there is a slight variation (depending on seasons I’m guessing) so you get an annular eclipse instead of a total one. Also wild because if it was slightly bigger instead of being slightly smaller we would not have that.
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