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Eclipses
How solar and lunar eclipses happen, how they look in the sky and when the next ones are, including those visible from Brazil.
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How it happens
Not to scale: the Sun is 400 times wider than the Moon and 400 times farther away, which is why both look the same size in the sky.
How it looks from the ground
The next eclipses
Dates and places: NASA (Fred Espenak), Brazil's National Observatory and timeanddate. The date is that of the maximum, in universal time; times vary from city to city.
Where to see it on your trip
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Málaga

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Ecuador

Peru

Portugal

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Sydney

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