While I do not live on the other side of the planet, I did see the livestream just now of the totality of the Moon eclipsing the Sun for four minutes in Indonesia. Countries like Australia got a partial solar eclipse.
The total footage was quite lovely and for those of you that did see it as well I'm sure enjoyed it, too. We are in an era where the moon is the perfect size in tandem with the distance from Earth (one light second) and to the Sun that it is able to do this. Not many planets in the universe have been calculated to have such a rare event occur with their natural satellites.
The Moon is moving away from us at about 1.5 inches per year... that is a pretty significant number.
It was 20,000km away from us when it was formed about 4.4 billion years ago -- and it is now about 400,000km away from us and tidally locked.

- So far this year we have discovered 23 new planets to date -- A few of which are, for now, probable candidates for a new home.
- Juno will arrive at Jupiter on Independence Day since its launch in 2007, and we can say hi to it through radios and possibly even messages.
- NASA is funding sending a submarine to Titan, Saturn's glorious satellite.
- We... may not make it to Mars until the 2030s...
- We've discovered gravitational waves from two black holes colliding.
- Ceres has so many new features visible to us now, including an obscure pyramid shape on its surface.
- China has given us true-colour images of the Moon in 4K.

2016 isn't all bad news