Solar eclipse 2021 on December 4

On December 4, a total solar eclipse, which is also the last solar eclipse of the year, will be visible from Antarctica. NASA says that the cosmic phenomenon will also be visible from a few other parts of the globe. Sky gazers in the southern tip of South America, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand can see partial phases of the eclipse.

NASA has published an interactive map, which shows the path of the solar eclipse across Earth’s surface. The December 4 eclipse will not be visible from India. We will see a partial Solar Eclipse on October 25, 2022.

A total solar eclipse appears when the Moon passes between the Earth and the sun. The Sun is approximately four hundred times larger than the Moon and also 400 times further away from the Moon. This makes it look like both the Sun and Moon are similar in disk size causing the eclipse. This total solar eclipse comes two weeks after the partial lunar eclipse of November 19.