Ann Curry will host a new PBS series next year called âWeâll Meet Again.â The six-part program will feature reunions between people who have been affected by real-life events, like a Japanese-American woman who sought to find a classmate who helped her when she was a girl at the outbreak of World War II. After Pearl Harbor, [â¦]
There can be as many as seven eclipses (solar plus lunar) in any one year. In 1935 there were five solar eclipses - four partial and one annular. On average, there is a total solar eclipse visible somewhere about every 18 months. However, from any one location on Earth, total eclipses take place on average only once in several hundred years.
There are typically 12 full moons and 12 new moons every year, but only four to seven eclipses. Total lunar eclipse composite image by Fred Espenak. A lunar eclipse happens when the Earth, sun and moon align in space, with Earth in the middle.