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One of the brightest stars in the sky will 'blink out' on Dec. 12. Here's how to watch.
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A very, very tiny total eclipse.
Things like this make you realize eclipse as a bit of an arbitrary term to cover what we feel isn't quite a transit and isn't quite an occultation. Total solar eclipses are occultations and annulars are transits. Lunar eclipses are very disproportionately occultations but we're sitting inside the cozy Earth looking out like office gophers commenting "it's really coming down now" about snow flurries. When the Martian rover saw Phobos in front of the sun, it was a transit.