We’ve been waiting for the last solar eclipse as if we have time: creating simulations that take us across patterns of cloud-ing, grasping and dispersing that last hundreds of thousands of years.
The wind stretches, reaches from here to you. There is a storm on Jupiter right now which has lasted at least 340 years, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
Of the 227 moons that orbit planets in the solar sy- stem, only the Earth’s is the right size and distance away to precisely cover the sun in the sky. That perfect ratio is changing, as the moon drifts further and further away from us.3 The last total solar eclipse will occur in about 600 million years.
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