Humans have been predicting eclipses for thousands of years, but it's harder than you might think
- Written by: Aaron Robotham, Research Associate Professor & UWA Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
Antikythera mechanism in National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece.Viacheslav Lopatin/ShutterstockThe coastal town of Exmouth in Western Australia is due to experience one of the most spectacular astronomical phenomena on April 20 2023 – a total solar eclipse.
Eclipses have entranced us for millennia. But it turns out calculating exactly...