Even more headfucking is that this has not been the case for all that long and, worse, won't carry on being the case for that much longer. Well, not that much longer in cosmology terms. 600 million years will probably see us out.

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So that means earlier lunar eclipses were not as cool, since the moon blocked more of the corona? But as we are getting into the final billion years of the eclipse period, we get the coolest ones, with the best views of the corona?
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I'm not an astronomer but I think we only get the cool corona effect because the whole disc is blacked out. But maybe.

When the Moon was closer there would have been a distinctly Cthulhu moment where the corona appeared on one side of the sun as it blacked out. Tentacles!
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It’s just a phase we’re going through so. A lunar phase.
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I was googling about the moon after the last solar eclipse and stumbled across an article about how the moon will eventually become locked to the earth's rotation, and only one side of the earth will be able to see it anymore. And I was thinking about how sad it would be, and then at the end of the
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article it was like "but by then the sun will have already expanded and consumed the earth"
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