{"id":15265,"date":"2023-09-25T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T05:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15265"},"modified":"2025-04-03T09:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T04:09:29","slug":"annular-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/annular-solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Annular solar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Annular solar eclipse:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is often referred to as the<strong> &#8220;ring of fire.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This eclipse\u00a0<strong>happens when the moon is at or near its farthest point<\/strong> from Earth in its orbit.<\/li>\n<li>The moon appears smaller than the sun in the sky and does not fully cover it, creating a striking visual effect.<\/li>\n<li>The moon appears as a dark disk superimposed on the larger, bright face of the sun, forming a glowing ring or &#8220;ring of fire.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The path of this upcoming eclipse will span several countries in North, Central, and South America.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Types of eclipses<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Total solar eclipse:\u00a0<\/strong>It happens when the sun, moon and Earth are in a direct line. The dark silhouette of the Moon completely covers the intense bright light of the Sun. Only the much fainter solar corona is visible during a total eclipse which is known as a Totality.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Partial solar eclipse<\/strong>: It happens when the shadow of the moon appears on a small part of the sun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Solar Eclipse?<\/h3>\n<p>A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, obscuring all or part of the Sun from view.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/what-is-ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse-that-is-set-to-occur-in-october-2439171-2023-09-22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What is &#8216;ring of fire&#8217; solar eclipse that is set to occur in October?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annular solar eclipse happens when the moon is at or near its farthest point from Earth in its orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}