'We have a responsibility:' Trudeau urges global leaders to support pact for future
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is telling world leaders to either bury their heads in the sand or put differences aside for the sake of future generations.
A select few will see something unusual in the sky at the end of the month, according to NASA 鈥 there will be a partial eclipse of the sun, visible only in a few regions of the Earth.
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon鈥檚 orbit lines up with the sun during the daytime so that it partially or fully blocks the sun鈥檚 light for a brief window of time. During a full eclipse, the moon blocks the sun completely, while in a partial eclipse when they are not perfectly aligned, the moon鈥檚 body blocks only part of the sun, giving it a crescent shape.
On April 30, those who live in parts of southern South America and the south Pacific and Southern Oceans will have a chance to spot a partial eclipse just before sunset,
If you happen to live at the edge of Antarctica, you also have a chance to spot the eclipse, but we鈥檙e sadly out of luck in Canada.
The eclipse is set to occur during the new moon. As it is the second new moon of the month of April, it鈥檚 given the unofficial moniker of a 鈥淏lack Moon,鈥 according to The Old Farmer鈥檚 Almanac.
Those who are able to view the eclipse should remember that it can damage your eyes to look directly at the sun during a solar eclipse, even though some or most of the light is being blocked. According to NASA, you can wear solar viewing or eclipse glasses to view the sun, or create a pinhole projector to projector the light onto a surface and look at the changed shape of the sun that way.
Solar and lunar eclipses are not as rare as you might think 鈥 they occur a few times a year on average. But solar eclipses can only be viewed by certain parts of the globe, and total solar eclipses are rarer.
According to NASA, the next notable solar eclipse is next year, in October. Although the Moon will pass fully in front of the sun, it will be during the time of the month when the moon is farthest away from the Earth, making it an annular solar eclipse. This is when the sun appears as a bright ring around the black circle of the moon, what some call a 鈥渞ing of fire鈥 eclipse.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is telling world leaders to either bury their heads in the sand or put differences aside for the sake of future generations.
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