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    Why Future Earthlings Won't See Total Solar Eclipses

    The Earth won't enjoy total solar eclipses forever because the moon is moving farther away, so it looks smaller and smaller over time.
    by Nell Greenfieldboyce Aug 14, 2017 1 minute
    On Nov. 13, 2012, a narrow corridor in the southern hemisphere experienced a total solar eclipse. The corridor lay mostly over the ocean but also cut across the northern tip of Australia where both professional and amateur astronomers gathered to watch.

    Anyone who gets to see the total solar eclipse on August 21 will be lucky — and humanity is lucky to live on a planet that even has this kind of celestial event.

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