An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of the orbit on January 15, 2010, with a magnitude of 0.91903. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking …

An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when an astronomical object or spacecraft is temporarily obscured, by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer. This alignment of three celestial objects is known as a syzygy. Apart from syzygy, the term eclipse is also used when a spacecraft reaches a position where it can …

CNEOS 2014-01-08, a meteor with a width of 0.45 m (1.5 ft), burned up in the Earth's atmosphere on January 8, 2014. A 2019 preprint suggested this meteor had been of interstellar origin. After declassifying the data in April 2022, the U.S. Space Command, based on information collected from its planetary defense sensors, confirmed the detection of the interstellar meteor.