The animation above shows the solar eclipse of November 3, 2013, as observed from the MSG satellite, in geostationary orbit 22,369 mi (36,000 km) above the equator. Note that the eclipsed area, where the shadow of the full Moon reached the Earth's surface, lies over the Atlantic Ocean near the Cape Verde Islands. This eclipse was classified as a hybrid eclipse because it started out as an annular eclipse. However, it was a total eclipse over equatorial Africa. When the shadow was over land it was in the vicinity of the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) – a cloudy and often rainy zone. Thus observing this eclipse from the surface was quite challenging.
Stars, like bees, swarm around the center of bright
globular cluster M15.
This ball of over 100,000
stars is a relic from the
early years of
our Galaxy,
and continues to orbit the
Milky Way's center.
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