Hi friends, so today I am going to tell you about "Solar eclipse, Lunar eclipse and supermoon". So let's start it.
Solar Eclipse
During a solar eclipse, the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, stopping some of the Sun's light from reaching our planet. Typically, there are three kinds of solar eclipses—total solar eclipse, annular eclipse and partial solar eclipse. During a total eclipse, the Moon will completely cover the Sun. An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly in line with the Earth, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. Hence the Sun appears as a very bright ring, or annulus, surrounding the dark disk of the Moon. In a partial eclipse, the moon, sun and earth are not exactly in line, causing the moon to cover a little part of the sun.
Lunar Eclipse
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are exactly or very closely aligned with Earth between the other two, which can happen only on the night of a full moon. There are three types of lunar eclipse: a total lunar eclipse, a penumbral lunar eclipse and a partial lunar eclipse. When the Moon passes into the outer shadow, we call this a penumbral lunar eclipse. There aren't many noticeable effects during a penumbral eclipse. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth and Moon aren't exactly aligned, so only part of the Moon passes into Earth's umbral shadow and thus only part of it appears red.
Supermoon
When a full Moon occurs at the closest point to Earth during its orbit, it appears larger and brighter, becoming what is commonly known as a 'supermoon'. Supermoons are not unusual. They occur as a regular part of the Moon's orbit of Earth. There is no formal scientific definition of a supermoon, but it occurs when there is a full Moon and the Moon is also closest to the Earth. 'It is very rare that an orbiting body follows an exactly circular path. The Moon has a slight "eccentricity", meaning it travels in an elliptical path around the Earth - so it is sometimes nearer and sometimes further away.' Throughout its orbit, the Moon varies between about 360,000 and 400,000 kilometres away from our planet. Perigee is the point at which the Moon is closest to the Earth. When the Moon is at this point, it appears around 14% bigger than a full Moon at the furthest point away, at apogee - when the Moon is sometimes called a 'micromoon'. 'It's not that much, actually, and it's doubtful that it makes a huge difference to how it looks, but it gets people looking up at the Moon and thinking about it,'
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