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A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth is between the sun and the moon and its shadow darkens the moon.
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon is between the sun and the earth and its shadow moves across the earth.
Eclipses occur only when the moon or the sun is close to the two points, called the nodes, where the orbital planes of the earth and the moon intersect.