Every few years somewhere on Earth is witness to one of the planet's greatest sites, a total solar eclipse.

A total solar eclipse is rare, but it can be calculated centuries in advance.

However, that wasn't always the case. For thousands of years, solar eclipses were rare events

that were considered to be bad omens. Learn more about solar eclipses, how they work and how people

have dealt with them throughout history on this episode of

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I'm sure that most of you know what a solar eclipse is, but we should probably start from the basics anyhow.

When one astronomical object passes in front of another one, from the perspective of an observer, it's considered to be one of two things,

either an occultation or a transit.

A transit is when an object that appears smaller passes in front of an object that appears larger.

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