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🌕 The Moon is slowly leaving us — and one day, there will be no more total solar eclipses.
Every year, the Moon drifts about 3.8 centimeters (1.5 inches) away from Earth due to tidal interactions. That means in roughly 600 million years, the Moon will be too far away to perfectly cover the Sun’s disk during an eclipse — ending total solar eclipses forever.
So, right now, we’re living in a tiny cosmic window of time — just a few hundred million years out of billions — when total solar eclipses are even possible.
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