In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll be cool in the shade of today’s topic: umbra! Umbra is just the Latin word for "shadow," which is a good thing because it's the word used to describe the shadow cast by one astronomical object on another. The most common …
In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll be cool in the shade of today’s topic: umbra! Umbra is just the Latin word for "shadow," which is a good thing because it's the word used to describe the shadow cast by one astronomical object on another. The most common …
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