# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BCtwSZyoaOH
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11736862-nasa-instagram
- **Posted:** 2016-03-09T02:06:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Wow, a total solar eclipse! See the moon pass directly in front of the sun. It happened from 8:38 to 8:42 p.m. EST Tuesday. As the moon passed precisely between the sun and Earth - a relatively rare occurrence that happens only about once a year because of the fact that the moon and the sun do not orbit in the exact same plane - it blocked the sun's bright face, revealing the tenuous and comparatively faint solar atmosphere, the corona.

The total eclipse was only visible in parts of Southeast Asia. 

Credit: NASA

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astronomy, sun, earth, science, nasa, space, moon, eclipse2016, solareclipse, eclipse

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