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Without eclipses, our world would be a lot different because eclipses give us the ability to do science we otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Corona: the outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere.
- General Relativity: a theory of gravitation developed by Albert Einstein that says that the observed gravitational effect between masses results from their warping of spacetime.
- Lunar Eclipse: an eclipse in which the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth’s shadow.
- Solar Eclipse : an eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon.
- Tidal Friction: strain produced in a celestial body (such as the Earth or Moon) that undergoes cyclic variations in gravitational attraction as it orbits, or is orbited by, a second body.

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Cameron Duke | Script Writer, Narrator and Director.
Sarah Berman | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation.
Nathaniel Schroeder | Music.

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OTHER CREDITS
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Photo of 1919 Total Solar Eclipse.
Credit: ESO/Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl/F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, & C. Davidson.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1926a/