This person was capturing the moon, and the view was already breathtaking. But at that very moment, a plane passed right in front of it, leaving behind a trail of smoke. That unexpected addition ...

The moon does not orbit the Earth in a perfectly flat plane around our planet’s equator ... That means that sometimes the moon will pass in front of the Earth slightly above or below the ...

When the moon crosses the ecliptic — Earth's orbital plane — it is known as a lunar node. The distance at which the new moon approaches a node will determine the type of solar eclipse.