Sunday, June 27, 2010

Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Solstice and Lunar Eclipse edition)

by Neon Vincent

Solstices and Equinoxes

Welcome to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment.

This week's featured story comes from CBS News.

Partial Lunar Eclipse Comes and Goes
by Charles Cooper

A partial eclipse took place early Saturday when the earth passed between the sun and the moon.

The event , which was visible to many in western stretches of North America and parts of  the Asia-Pacific region, began at 3:17 a.m. PDT (1017 GMT) and ended about three hours later.

There will be a total solar eclipse on July 11.

More science, space, and environment stories after the jump.



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