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Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Lunar eclipses have a range they're visible from just like solar eclipses do, but they tend to be much larger since it depends only on if the side of the moon being eclipsed is visible from a given location at the time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Understood, but, do they “pass overhead”? I have only heard this term used in discussions about total solar eclipses.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, an eclipse certainly isn’t moving underground…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Depends which side of the planet you’re on

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