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We Are Not Foreign to the Cosmos

The universe is not happening around us. It is continuing through us.

Chelsea M. Thacker · August 25, 2026

During a lunar eclipse, Earth moves between the Sun and the Moon. For a few hours, our planet interrupts the light that normally illuminates the lunar surface, and Earth’s shadow becomes visible in the sky.

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