Solar Eclipse Facts
It is the only lunar phase for a solar eclipse to occur
New Moon
Song that muses "Let me play among the stars; Let me see what Spring is like on Jupiter and Mars"
Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
When Dr. Dave Bowman and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behaviour in this 1968 film
2001: A Space Odyssey
In 2006 Pluto was reclassified as this type of planet
Dwarf Planet
The Autumn Dipper, often mistaken for the big one, has a bowl made of stars in this "winged horse" constellation
Pegasus
It is the track of the moon's shadow across the earth's surface during a solar eclipse
Path of Totality
In this song an astronaut messages "This is Major Tom to Ground Control; I'm stepping through the door; And I'm floating in a most peculiar way; And the stars look very different today"
Space Oddity
Left behind and presumed dead after a fierce storm, a stranded astronaut must utilize his wits and spirit to find a way to survive on a hostile planet in this 2015 film
The Martian
This astronomer was the first to report telescopic observations of the mountains on the moon, the moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and the rings of Saturn
Galileo Galilei
Going by their Latin names, the 2 3-letter constellations are Ara & this zodiac one
Leo
The word "eclipse" comes from "ekleipsis," the word for abandonment in this ancient language
Ancient Greek
In this song the singer brags "You talking money, need a hearing aid; You talking 'bout me, I don't see the shade; Switch up my style, I take any lane"
Starboy
A Wookie
He was the first person to travel into space
Yuri Gagarin
Libra represents these as carried by Themis, the goddess of justice
Scales
You'll see a total eclipse if you're in the dark part of the moon's shadow, called this
The umbra
This song offers these words of wisdom?, "And of course you can't become if you only say what you would have done; So I missed a million miles of fun"
Steal My Sunshine
Brash space adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the target of relentless bounty hunters after he steals an orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain in this 2014 film
Guardians of the Galaxy
It is the name of the spacecraft that carried the first astronauts to the moon
Apollo 11
Procyon, also known as the "Little Dog Star", is the brightest star in this constellation of the lesser dog
Canis Minor
Similar solar eclipses recur every 18 years, 11 days, and 8 hours, known as this cycle
Saros Cycle
Composed by Gustav Holst, this seven-movement orchestral suite had astronomers 'out of order'
In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from another vessel in this 1979 film
Alien
He completed his first great work titled On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1530 and is known as the Father of Astronomy
Nicolaus Copernicus
The largest of all constellations, it is associated with the many-headed monster killed by Hercules in his labours
Hydra