6 things you didn’t know about eclipses

Think you know about eclipses? Watch to discover kid-friendly eclipse science, learn how to make a super-easy DIY solar eclipse viewer at home, and test your eclipse know-how!

Video Chapters!
00:00 Let's learn about eclipses
00:13 What's syzygy?
00:36 5000 years of fascination
00:56 Animals think eclipses are weird
01:24 Earth is special
01:56 No more eclipses
02:14 Eclipses aren't more harmful
02:42 Try these DIYs at home

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Credits:
➡️ Animal research from Total Eclipse of the Zoo: Animal Behavior during a Total Solar Eclipse by Adam Hartstone-Rose et al, Animals (Basel). 2020 Apr; 10(4): 587.
➡️ Technical animations by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio (2023) used under NASA media guidelines.
➡️ Historical images used under public domain.
Two Philosophers Watching an Eclipse by Pierre Brebiette via The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1615–42).
A View of London in 1748, with Diagrams of an Eclipse. Engraving by anon via Wellcome Collection.
A Diagram of an Eclipse. Engraving by Seale via Wellcome Collection.
The Dragon of the Eclipse [Tinnîn], as viewed in the heavens by Muhammad Bâqir al-Hâfiz via Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library (1630-1633).
Sketch of Solar Eclipse by José Joaquin de Ferrer via NASA (1806).