For A Brief Moment Today, 90 Percent Of Humanity Will Be Engulfed In Darkness

Posted 2022-12-06, IFL Science Headlines

On Tuesday, December 6, at 7:56 pm UTC, most of the world's population will look up and see a sky that is completely dark. Let's explain. We (well, unless you happen to be a flat-Earther who believes the sun rotates around above our heads like a tennis ball on the end of a Swingball rope) are pretty used to the idea... read full story

"According to our calculations, the moment of maximum darkness happens on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, at 19:56,"

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