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Lunar eclipese
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Lunar eclipses have astonished civilizations for many ages, and each culture has their own explanations for a lunar eclipse is. In this paper, I will explain different cultural explanations around the world for why lunar eclipses happen, and thoroughly detail the factual scientific reason of why lunar eclipses happen.
An eclipse occurs when one astronomical body casts its shadow on another astronomical body. A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon, Earth and sun are in alignment and the moon passes through the planet's shadow. Eclipses are rare because of the moon’s orbit around the Earth is tilted with respect to the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Without that tilt, we would have lunar eclipses every month. But with this tilt, the moon l
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