The Last Total Solar Eclipse Explained

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]There will be the last total solar eclipse ever. If the moon is not big enough to >> cover the sun.

[00:00:06]>> that's the end of solar eclipses. We are in a special time in the Earth-Moon-Sun relationship. And so will end our beautiful eclipses. We have the most beautiful eclipses in the solar system cuz the size of the moon on the sky is is a is the same size as the size of the sun on the sky.

[00:00:23]>> Right. And that's because the sun is 400 times the size of the moon. Right.

[00:00:28]>> moon is 400 times closer.

[00:00:30]So they're always So we are in a time where we have these beautiful eclipses where they're almost the same size as each other. If you go back a few billion years, the moon would have been really big and it would have been a total solar eclipse, but you wouldn't see the pretty edge of the sun.

[00:00:44]>> out.