{"id":831644,"date":"2026-07-28T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831644\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:37:10","slug":"eclipse-season-europe-to-see-two-eclipses-in-two-weeks-as-earth-moon-and-sun-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831644\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Eclipse season\u2019: Europe to see two eclipses in two weeks as Earth, Moon and Sun line up"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 35-day “eclipse season” is underway as the Sun, Earth and Moon line up in space<\/a>, bringing two celestial events within just over a fortnight of each other next month.<\/p>\n

A total solar eclipse<\/a> will see the Moon pass between the Earth and the Sun on 12 August, with the path of totality sweeping from Greenland down to Spain.<\/p>\n

Then on the night of 27-28 August, the Earth will pass between the Sun and the Moon to cause a partial lunar eclipse<\/a> over Europe, Africa, North America and South America.<\/p>\n

The pair of eclipses occur due to an orbital alignment window that happens roughly every six months, which some astronomers refer to as an eclipse season.<\/p>\n

Despite the frequency of eclipse seasons, total solar eclipses are relatively rare occurrences, with only one more set to take place over Europe in the next 10 years.<\/p>\n

The lunar eclipse, which will see over 96 per cent of the Moon pass into Earth’s shadow, will also be the best lunar eclipse anywhere on Earth until December 2028.<\/p>\n

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A digital composite of a lunar eclipse over Santa Rosa, Laguna province, Philippines, on 3 March, 2026 (Getty)<\/p>\n

It will create something known as a ‘blood moon’, where the lunar surface appears to turn a deep red colour.<\/p>\n

For people in the UK, it will appear low in the western sky shortly before setting at dawn on 28 August.<\/p>\n

Another celestial spectacle in August will bring shooting stars to the night sky on 12 August \u2013 the same day as the total solar eclipse.<\/p>\n

That date is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, which is one of the year’s best meteor showers, capable of producing up to 100 shooting stars per hour.<\/p>\n

The next eclipse season will begin in early 2027, featuring an annular ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse over South America and Africa on 6 February.<\/p>\n

A penumbral lunar eclipse, where the Moon will pass through the outer part of Earth’s shadow, will then appear on the night of 20-21 February over Europe, Africa and parts of Asia.<\/p>\n

The next total solar eclipse will take place on 2 August 2027, passing over Spain and North Africa and producing the longest duration of any solar eclipse visible from land until 2114.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 35-day “eclipse season” is underway as the Sun, Earth and Moon line up in space, bringing two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,72347,68575,6294,290436,66,10133,67284],"class_list":["post-831644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eclipse-season","tag-lunar-eclipse","tag-moon","tag-north-america-and-south-america","tag-science","tag-solar-eclipse","tag-the-sun-and-the-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}