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Welcome back to The Mysterious Cosmos , ever wondered why does an eclipse occur? Is there someone playing with the planets? Or is there some magical force driving the heavenly bodies or it is just the way our universe works. On 21 July 2017 the U.S.A observed a Total Solar Eclipse, one of the most beautiful phenomenon the nature portrays before us. It is magnificent, it is fascinating...... well the phenomenon can not be explained by words! Eclipse as seen from the GIII aircraft!      Well a Solar Eclipse is a Transit of The Moon ( for  more on transit visit :  Mercury Transit ) such  that the Moon comes between the Earth and Sun. Well now some of you may question that this also happens during a new moon which happens every month so the solar eclipse should also occur monthly? The answer to it is simple, here's how it goes. Think of the Sun and the Earth as to points on a line and since they lie on a line we call it as the Earth-Sun plane. Now im...