--- title: Eclipses Are Actually Happening All the Time description: The solar eclipse that will cross the US on August 21 isn't the only eclipse happening this month. You just need to know where to look canonical: https://time.com/4893023/solar-eclipse-space/ author: Jeffrey Kluger article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-10T13:00:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-30T12:26:39.960Z article:section: Science og:title: Eclipses Are Happening All the Time. 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It reaches 40,000 subscribers with a 34.2% open rate and a 2.1% click rate as of August 2026. #### Where can I follow the energy transition as a business story? Future Proof covers climate and energy as an economic and business story rather than only an environmental one. It publishes every Friday and is free at time.com/newsletters. #### Who writes Future Proof? Justin Worland, a senior correspondent at TIME and an award-winning climate journalist, writes Future Proof. #### Is Future Proof free? Yes. Future Proof is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/) and [Anne Most](https://time.com/author/anne-most/) Aug 10, 2017 1:00 PM UTC  This annular solar eclipse was captured by Japan's Hinode satellite on January 4, 2011. This annular solar eclipse was captured by Japan's Hinode satellite on January 4, 2011. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/) and [Anne Most](https://time.com/author/anne-most/) Aug 10, 2017 1:00 PM UTC Look up at the sky, right now (or at least if “right now” is nighttime) and gaze around for a few seconds. Done? OK. You’ve just seen an [eclipse](http://time.com/4750899/total-solar-eclipse/); actually, you’ve probably seen a lot of eclipses. Most of the time, we think of [eclipses as the rare](http://time.com/4834676/total-solar-eclipse-2017-rare/), spectacular phenomenon that is a [solar eclipse,](http://time.com/4882923/total-solar-eclipse-map-places-view/) like the one that will [cross America ](http://time.com/4884482/total-solar-eclipse-2017-map/)on Aug. 21— or its paler but still lovely cousin, the lunar eclipse. But in the context of the cosmos, all the term “eclipse” means is one cosmic body moving in front of another, at least partly obscuring it. In our own solar system, the planets are forever eclipsing the sun, depending on your point of view in space, while the moons are forever eclipsing the planets. The Kepler Space Telescope, which has been in solar orbit since 2009, has discovered thousands of distant planets by looking for what are essentially mini-eclipses — the dimming of light that occurs when the planet passes in front of its parent star. Those eclipses are hardly total; the dimming is the equivalent of removing a single light bulb from a board of ten thousand bulbs — but it can be enough to prove the existence of a world where once we knew of none. Such distant eclipses don’t make for very pretty pictures — or any, really. But as the video above shows, the ones around our own parent star do. 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