10 of the best pictures of solar eclipses throughout history
For millennia, humans have been documenting their views as the moon moved between Earth and the sun, blocking out the sun’s light and revealing its swirling outer layers. National Park Service The earliest confirmed written record of a solar eclipse comes from the 13th century BC, when scribes in China wrote that the sun had been “eaten”. Scientific and religious texts continued to document eclipses up until the present day, and researchers now use these texts to study both how eclipses have changed in the intervening centuries and how human views of them have evolved throughout time.
- ▪For millennia, humans have been documenting their views as the moon moved between Earth and the sun, blocking out the sun’s light and revealing its swirling outer layers.
- ▪National Park Service The earliest confirmed written record of a solar eclipse comes from the 13th century BC, when scribes in China wrote that the sun had been “eaten”.
- ▪Scientific and religious texts continued to document eclipses up until the present day, and researchers now use these texts to study both how eclipses have changed in the intervening centuries and how human views of them have evolved throug
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Space 10 of the best pictures of solar eclipses throughout historyHumans have been observing solar eclipses for millennia – carving, painting, sketching and finally photographing as the moon blocks out the disc of the sun By Leah Crane 24 July 2026 Facebook Threads X / Twitter WhatsApp LinkedIn Reddit Email Print A solar eclipse as seen from the La Silla European Southern Observatory in ChileMARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images A total eclipse occurs somewhere in the world about once every 18 months on average, and that has been the case for all of human history. For millennia, humans have been documenting their views as the moon moved between Earth and the sun, blocking out the sun’s light and revealing its swirling outer layers.
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