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3 articles tagged “Space”.
On 12 August 2026 the Moon's shadow crossed Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain — mainland Europe's first totality since 1999. It lasted barely two minutes. Next August, one lasts six and a half.
It is not distance from the Sun — in fact Earth is closest to the Sun in early January, during northern winter. The real mechanism is a 23.4° tilt doing two things at once, and one of them is easy to overlook.
4.54 billion years, give or take 50 million. The strange part is that the number comes from meteorites rather than Earth rocks — and the reason why is the most interesting thing in the whole story.