{"id":13852,"date":"2024-10-11T04:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ring-of-fire-eclipse-shines-over-south-america\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T04:00:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T04:00:59","slug":"ring-of-fire-eclipse-shines-over-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ring-of-fire-eclipse-shines-over-south-america\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ring of fire\u2019 eclipse shines over South America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A &#8220;ring of fire&#8221; solar eclipse was seen from Easter Island, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina on 2 October.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Solar eclipses happen when the Moon casts a shadow on Earth and in a total eclipse, the whole disc of the Sun is blocked.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">An annular solar eclipse differs because some of the Sun will still be visible as a spectacular ring with the centre blocked out by the Moon.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The reason for this ring &#8211; known as the &#8220;ring of fire&#8221; &#8211; is because the Moon happens to be at its furthest point from Earth, called the apogee, and therefore appears slightly smaller in the sky.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cwyvng46vg8o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;ring of fire&#8221; solar eclipse was seen from Easter Island, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina on 2 October. Solar eclipses happen when the Moon casts a shadow on Earth and in a total eclipse, the whole disc of the Sun is blocked. An annular solar eclipse differs because some of the Sun will still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13854,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852\/revisions\/13854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}