On the night of March 13 into March 14, skygazers across North America—along with many other parts of the world—will get the ...

IT is not uncommon for an observer, when looking at his own shadow on rough ground or turbid water, to see its head surrounded by a halo, of which the brightest part is in contact with the shadow.

During a total solar eclipse, the moon, positioned directly between the sun and Earth, casts a complete shadow on our planet ... s dazzling corona, a wispy halo of plasma, for a brief window.

That halo only lasts a couple of minutes ... a solar and lunar eclipse is when the moon casts a shadow onto the earth during a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse is when the earth is casting ...