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The UK has experienced a partial solar eclipse, due to which it is expected that by the end of this month, darkness may take over Ashbourne during the day for more than a couple of hours. The event will happen on just before 8.30am on Friday, 20th of March.

Such a phenomenon takes place when the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth. The moon will not cover the disc of Sun fully, but around 90% of the Sun will be blocked out by the Moon as it passes by.

Patrick Poitevin, an astronomer from Ashbourne explained that there are three kinds of solar eclipse – total, partial and annular.

Screen Ran has recently shared seven new dinosaurs that audiences will be able to see in the Jurassic World film. Makers of the movie said that although these dinosaurs might appear to be harmless, but actually they are no pushovers.

The Jurassic World that will most probably hit the screens on June 12, 2015 is the story of a Jurassic Theme Park whose genetically modified dinosaur publicity stunt goes horribly wrong, as the creature escapes.

The seven new dinosaurs of the Jurassic World film include the Metriacanthosaurus, the Edmontosaurus, the Dimorphodon, the Baryonyx, the Pteranodon, the Suchomimus, and the Microceratus.

Scientists came across a new family of moth in some remote and unexplored region of Australia. The new species sheds light on the way moths and butterflies developed 80 to 100 million years ago.

The Aenigmatinea glatzella, or ‘Enigma moth’, was found on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. The discovery was made in 2009 by local scientist Richard Glatz and published in the Systematic Entomology journal.

The island is only 100km from Adelaide and 13km from the mainland that has been settled since 1836. It is considered to be one of the loveliest destinations for a holiday.

The moth is shielded by gold and purple wings that are about 4mm long, making the creatures exceptionally beautiful. The males and females have golden metallic purple wings respectively.

A new NASA study has suggested that the sun's hemisphere, a bubble around our planets and sun is actually dominated by two giant jets of material shooting backwards over the north and south poles of the sun.

The sun emits charged particles in a stream of plasma called the solar wind. The solar wind, in turn, creates a bubble termed as the heliosphere that extends far beyond the planets of the solar system.

For decades, scientists have visualized the heliosphere in the shape of a comet, with a very long tail extending some 464 billion miles. However, the new study has found that this is not the case. Rather, the sun is emitting these winds in two jets originating from the poles of the sun.

A letter has been signed by about 350 teachers in high schools asking Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to drop proposed morality clauses from the teacher handbook. These high schools are administrated by the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The organizers said that the letter has been signed by more than 70% of the faculty and staff at the affected schools. About 126 teachers and staff from Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep, 74 at Archbishop Riordan and 68 at Marin Catholic and 87 from Serra High School in San Mateo have signed the letter.

The federal agents who target maternity tourism’ schemes, in which pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States, usually on tourist visas, so that their children will be born as US citizens, on Tuesday, has raided three operations, including You Win USA in California.

These raids have marked the biggest federal investigation of its kind, aiming at cracking down against the extensive practice of foreign nationals traveling to the US only to give birth.

As per the affidavit, the agents raided a company, Star Baby Care, which has boasted on its site that it had served 4,000 women from China since it was founded in 1999.