Why Do Eclipses Travel WEST to EAST?

Опубликовано 1 апреля 2024, 15:41

The sun rises in the east, the moon rises in the east, and the stars rise in the east... but solar eclipses, oddly, come from the west. If total eclipses are caused by the sun and the moon, why don't they behave like the sun and the moon?

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