{"id":478304,"date":"2026-05-20T04:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/how-is-the-sun-completely-blocked-in-an-eclipse-nasa-space-place\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:06:00","slug":"how-is-the-sun-completely-blocked-in-an-eclipse-nasa-space-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/how-is-the-sun-completely-blocked-in-an-eclipse-nasa-space-place\/","title":{"rendered":"How Is the Sun Completely Blocked in an Eclipse? &#8211; NASA Space Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun is completely blocked in a solar eclipse because the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun. Even though the Moon is much smaller than the Sun, because it is just the right distance away from Earth, the Moon can fully blocks the Sun\u2019s light from Earth\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/total-solar-eclipse\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/total-solar-eclipse\/en\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun is completely blocked in a solar eclipse because the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun. Even though the Moon is much smaller&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kunsthaus-zurich-en","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}