My introduction

We are living in a very complicated solar system, which has not been understood for too long. People in the past thought that the earth was a flat large piece of land located at the center of the universe and that all other stars and planets orbited around it. Most of the astronomical phenomena were misunderstood back then; and one of them was the solar eclipse. It’s a rare phenomenon and according to NASA there will be only eighteen solar eclipses between 1996 and 2020. People were concerned by solar eclipse in all ages. It was surrounded by myths and legends, because people just couldn’t imagine how the sun could disappear in the middle of the day. More than that, it was hard to study because it caused damage to the naked eye when stared at too long. Solar eclipses are an interesting event seeing is has great meanings. This paper will discus how solar eclipse happens, how to see it safely and why is it interesting.