Sun Time Science: Big Sun, Little Moon
Explore how solar eclipses can happen by using items from your own home in this do it yourself science activity.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Music: "Icelandic Arpeggios" by DivKid [Youtube Audio Library]
Complete transcript available.
How can the small moon cover up the big Sun? Explore how solar eclipses can happen by using items from your own home in this do it yourself science activity. To do this activity, you will need two objects of similar shape, a bit of space and either someone to hold one object in place or some wall safe tape.
To learn more about the Sun, visit: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/sun/
To learn more about eclipses, visit: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses
A partial solar eclipse is seen as the sun rises behind the Delaware Breakwater Lighthouse, Thursday, June 10, 2021, at Lewes Beach in Delaware. The annular or “ring of fire” solar eclipse is only visible to some parts of Greenland, Northern Russia, and Canada.
Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. However, individual items should be credited as indicated above.
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Host
- Susannah Darling (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Writers
- Vanessa Thomas (InuTeq, LLC)
- Susannah Darling (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Editors
- Joy Ng (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Susannah Darling (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, October 21, 2022.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 11:43 AM EDT.