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I was watching a documentary on Discovery channel earlier this year on the Solar System and apparently the Solar Eclipse is (from what I have heard) an almost totally unique experience in the WHOLE (observable) UNIVERSE. Professional astronomers don't think it happens anywhere else. The size comparison between the sun and moon is about 400x (that is the sun is 400x bigger than the moon.) What makes it unique is that the sun also 400x further away, so the size at relative distance (what we see here on Earth) is almost a perfect fit and every 11? 12? years or so the 2 bodies match up and we get a Solar Eclipse.
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