the conditions required for Earthlings to experience a total solar eclipse like the one about to occur across a swath of North America have been developing for billions of years, and the phenomenon relies on the unique relationship between Earth and our moon.
The result is an illusion in which both sun and moon appear to be about the same size in our sky, allowing the moon to block out the sun's visible disk while revealing the fiery white corona of its outer atmosphere.
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