{"id":584602,"date":"2026-08-30T04:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584602\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T04:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:20:18","slug":"apod-2026-august-29-eclipse-pair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584602\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 August 29 &#8211; Eclipse Pair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p-md margin-0 media-detail-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplanation: <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/definition-what-is-an-eclipse-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eclipses tend to come in pairs.<\/a> Twice a year, during an eclipse season that lasts about 34 days, Sun, Moon, and Earth can nearly align. Then the new and full <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/moon\/moon-phases\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">phases of the Moon<\/a>, separated by just over 14 days, create a solar and a lunar eclipse. But only rarely is the alignment at both new moon and full moon during a single eclipse season close enough to produce a pair with both total solar and lunar eclipses. More often, partial eclipses are part of any eclipse season. But, the last eclipse season of 2026 did produce this fortnight-separated pairing of a <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-research\/heliophysics\/nasa-shares-views-of-august-solar-eclipse-from-ground-air-space\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">total solar eclipse<\/a> on August 12 (top) and an almost total lunar eclipse on the night of August 27\/28. At New Moon, the solar eclipse was captured at Pe\u00f1afiel, Spain near the begining of totality in this HDR composite image, revealing a flash of <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/space\/this-date-in-science-bailys-beads-discovered\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bailey&#8217;s beads<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap260817.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">golden<\/a> solar corona. At the following Full Moon, the deep <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap240920.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">partial lunar eclipse<\/a> was recorded from S\u00e8vres, France. Also an HDR composite, the image shows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?vanity=APOD.Sky&amp;set=a.1063776469684263\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this partial eclipse<\/a> at closer to half its 93 percent maximum phase, so about half the visible lunar disk appears darkened and reddened within Earth&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap250911.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">umbral<\/a> shadow. The coming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/eclipse\/2027\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eclipse season<\/a> will see an annular solar eclipse on 2027 February 6 paired with a penumbral lunar eclipse on February 20\/21.<\/p>\n<p>APOD&#8217;s main NASA site is <a href=\"https:\/\/asterisk.apod.com\/viewtopic.php?t=45023\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moving<\/a>: From <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">apod.nasa.gov<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/apod\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">science.nasa.gov\/apod<\/a><br \/>Tomorrow&#8217;s picture: a grand design\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explanation: Eclipses tend to come in pairs. 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