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I'm back for another Jack chat, and I just wanted to make this one a quick one.
Not too long.
Some of my other Jack chats have been a little bit longer, but I'll try to keep this one a little bit short.
So anyway, I wanted to read a WhatsApp message from Shima because she had a really interesting experience today.
So here's Shima's WhatsApp message.
I want to share this experience today.
We had a partial solar eclipse in Egypt as a result of this eclipse.
A lot of students did not go to school today because their parents were afraid for their children.
I think this is a unique experience.
I want to know if other countries all around the world witness this natural phenomenon.
Thank you for sharing, Shima.
Actually, I was looking at the news a little bit too myself, and I found an article about that.
It says the earth witnessed a partial solar eclipse of the sun today.
A partial solar eclipse was seen today in Egypt at 12:00 noon and is expected to end at 02:16 p.m.
the eclipse reached its peak at 109, when the moon covered 86% of the sun.
The eclipse was also visible from most of Europe, the Middle east, west Asia, west Serbia, South Asia, northeast Africa, and North America.
The phenomenon of solar eclipse happens when the sun, moon, and earth are all aligned in a straight line where the moon passes between the sun and the earth.
In such, the sun gets either partially or totally blocked by the moon.