👉Total solar eclipses might seem timeless, but they’re actually just a short phase in Earth’s long story. Today, we’re lucky: the Moon looks almost the exact right size in our sky to completely cover the Sun. When that happens, day briefly turns to twilight, and the Sun’s faint, glowing corona becomes visible around the darkened Moon. But this perfect alignment isn’t permanent. The Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth — about 3.8 centimeters every year — because of the gravitational pull bet