{"id":82897,"date":"2026-09-04T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/millions-in-uk-and-europe-left-wowed-by-once-in-a-generation-solar-eclipse\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T04:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:08:02","slug":"millions-in-uk-and-europe-left-wowed-by-once-in-a-generation-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/millions-in-uk-and-europe-left-wowed-by-once-in-a-generation-solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions in UK and Europe left wowed by once-in-a-generation solar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, blocking some or all of the Sun&#8217;s light and casting a shadow on our planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As time ticked by, slowly but surely the Moon obscured more of the Sun &#8211; acting like a dimmer switch as it did so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As seen from the UK, the Sun, Moon and Earth were not quite directly in line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The result was a partial eclipse, with the Moon covering about 90% of the Sun for most of the UK &#8211; the country&#8217;s most dramatic eclipse since 1999. In Cornwall, this was as high as 95%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parts of Spain got to experience something even more magical. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At roughly 19:30 BST (20:30 local time), the Sun, Moon and Earth were perfectly aligned &#8211; a total eclipse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgdp4923rdo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, blocking some or all of the Sun&#8217;s light and casting a shadow on our planet. As time ticked by, slowly but surely the Moon obscured more of the Sun &#8211; acting like a dimmer switch as it did so. As seen from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[9113,1597,632,1865,12616,549,21627],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82899,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82897\/revisions\/82899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}