Question

1. How is the solar eclipse formed? What property of light is observed here?
2. How is the lunar eclipse formed? What property of light is observed here?
3. Comment on how days and nights happen due to rectilinear propagation of light.

Answer 1

Answer:

•What Is a Solar Eclipse? Sometimes when the moon orbits Earth, it moves between the sun and Earth. When this happens, the moon blocks the light of the sun from reaching Earth. This causes an eclipse of the sun, or solar eclipse.

•During a lunar eclipse, Earth gets in the way of the sun's light hitting the moon. That means that during the night, a full moon fades away as Earth's shadow covers it up. The moon can also look reddish because Earth's atmosphere absorbs the other colors while it bends some sunlight toward the moon.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

1) A solar eclipse occurs when a portion of the Earth is engulfed in a shadow cast by the Moon which fully or partially blocks sunlight. This occurs when the Sun, Moon and Earth are aligned. Such alignment coincides with a new moon indicating the Moon is closest to the ecliptic plane.

2) During a lunar eclipse, Earth gets in the way of the sun's light hitting the moon. That means that during the night, a full moon fades away as Earth's shadow covers it up. During a total lunar eclipse, the moon is shining from all the sunrises and sunsets occurring on Earth.