--- title: Total Solar Eclipse: NASA Moon Trolls the Sun description: As people across America geared up to watch the total solar eclipse Monday, Twitter was dominated by talk of the moon blocking out the sun. canonical: https://time.com/4909998/solar-eclipse-nasa-moon-twitter-trolled-sun/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-21T22:29:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:39.419Z og:title: Moon Actually Blocks the Sun on During the Eclipse Online og:description: "Make way for the moon" og:url: https://time.com/4909998/solar-eclipse-nasa-moon-twitter-trolled-sun/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf50e39a4effc97a2/6988da90e76ad294ee62ed23/solar-eclipse3.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Solar Eclipse og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Moon Actually Blocks the Sun on During the Eclipse Online twitter:description: "Make way for the moon" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf50e39a4effc97a2/6988da90e76ad294ee62ed23/solar-eclipse3.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Moon Trolled the Sun Online During the Solar Eclipse Because This Is 2017 > Sponsored content. 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Scott Olson/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 21, 2017 10:29 PM UTC As people across America geared up to watch the [total solar eclipse](http://time.com/4900280/total-solar-eclipse-2017-video-watch/) Monday, Twitter was dominated by talk of the [moon](http://time.com/4909517/total-solar-eclipse-moon-shadow-video/) blocking out the [sun](http://time.com/4890397/solar-eclipse-damage-eyes-protect/). So naturally the NASA accounts representing the two celestial bodies in question couldn’t resist getting in on the action. Around 1:15 p.m. — just as the eclipse was reaching totality in Oregon — NASA’s moon account blocked its sun counterpart on the social networking site. “HA HA HA I’ve blocked the Sun!” [NASA Moon](https://twitter.com/NASAMoon) tweeted alongside a screenshot of the blocked page. “Make way for the Moon.” However, [NASA Sun & Space](https://twitter.com/NASASun) wasn’t about to take that shade sitting down. “Uh, EXCUSE me?!?,” the account quickly fired back. Thankfully, [NASA Earth](https://twitter.com/NASAEarth) was there to make peace between the two, resulting in a 3:15 reversal of the stonewall. “Remember, [@NASASun](https://twitter.com/NASASun) and [@NASAMoon](https://twitter.com/NASAMoon), in sunlight or in shadow, we love you both,” Earth wrote. See the full exchange below. > [](https://twitter.com/NASAMoon/status/899681358737539073) > [](https://twitter.com/NASASun/status/899684119025774592) > [](https://twitter.com/NASAMoon/status/899711536297586688) > [](https://twitter.com/NASAEarth/status/899682402124972032) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4909998/solar-eclipse-nasa-moon-twitter-trolled-sun/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4909998/solar-eclipse-nasa-moon-twitter-trolled-sun/"},"headline":"The Moon Trolled the Sun Online During the Solar Eclipse Because This Is 2017","datePublished":"2017-08-21T22:29:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:39.419Z","description":"\"Make way for the moon\"","url":"https://time.com/4909998/solar-eclipse-nasa-moon-twitter-trolled-sun/","keywords":["Newsfeed","NASA","viral","twitter","solar eclipse","Eclipse"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf50e39a4effc97a2/6988da90e76ad294ee62ed23/solar-eclipse3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf50e39a4effc97a2/6988da90e76ad294ee62ed23/solar-eclipse3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Solar Eclipse","caption":"The moon eclipses the sun above the campus of Southern Illinois University on August 21, 2017 in Carbondale, Illinois.","creditText":"Scott Olson/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4909998/solar-eclipse-nasa-moon-twitter-trolled-sun/","name":"The Moon Trolled the Sun Online During the Solar Eclipse Because This Is 2017"}}]}] ```