Solar eclipse

The event will be visible from Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East and Asia on Tuesday.

In 2023, there will be two annular eclipses, which occur when the moon, sun and Earth are exactly in line but the moon is too far away to go around the sun, creating a bull’s-eye effect for observers. The next total eclipse in the United Kingdom is not until 2090. [The Virtual Telescope Project](https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2022/10/04/25-october-2022-partial-solar-eclipse-live-event-online/) will livestream the event from Rome. Massey said, so you’re able to see just the bite out of the moon as it comes in front of the sun. “People need to understand it is not safe to look at the sun,” Dr. For many, it will look like a cloud covering the sun. As the moon makes its orbit around Earth, and as Earth orbits around the sun, the moon gets caught in the middle and casts a shadow on Earth. The alignment between the moon and the sun is relatively rare. Because the moon’s orbit is slightly tilted, solar eclipses occur only when the moon crosses the plane of Earth’s orbit during a new moon. Because the moon is smaller than Earth, the moon’s shadow covers only a small part of Earth’s surface and is visible only from certain regions. [The eclipse will become visible first](https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/solar-and-lunar-eclipses-in-2022/) in Reykjavik, Iceland, at 8:58 a.m. in [Chelyabinsk](https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/russia/chelyabinsk) in Russia’s southern Ural region, which is expected to get 79 percent coverage, before waning in New Delhi at 5:30 p.m.