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All you need to know about three types of solar eclipses
Solar eclipses can only occur during a new Moon when the Moon moves between the Earth and the Sun and the three celestial bodies form a straight line: Earth–Moon–Sun.
There are between two and five solar eclipses every year.
There are three kinds of solar eclipses: total, partial, and annular.
Here is an explainer.
![](https://thefederal.com/file/2019/12/solar-eclipse-01.jpg)
![](https://thefederal.com/file/2019/12/solar-eclipse-02.jpg)
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