August 21, 2017. Wait for it, eclipse enthusiasts.

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Aug. 21, 2017, is a red-letter day for eclipse enthusiasts.
On that date, the sun will be partially eclipsed over an immense area that includes all of North America, the northern third of South America, much of the eastern Pacific Ocean (including the Hawaiian Islands), virtually all of the north Atlantic Ocean and a slice of western Europe.

For much of the United States, at least 80 percent of the sun's diameter will be eclipsed by the passing new moon. Some eclipse chasers have billed it as the "Great American Total Solar Eclipse."

And a total eclipse will be visible along a narrow track that runs diagonally from northwest to southeast across the Lower 48 — the first such event that's visible for this part of the world since February 1979. It will also be the first time that the path of a total solar eclipse will go coast to coast across the U.S. since 1918. [Total Solar Eclipse 2017: When, Where and How to See It

Full read: https://www.space.com/33798-great-american-solar-eclipse-one-year-away.html

 

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Remind me next year.

 

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Coming soon.

 

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Bonnie Tyler will perform her 1983 hit "Total Eclipse of the Heart" on Royal Caribbean's Total Eclipse Cruise, a cruise ship that will be in the path of the total solar eclipse come this Monday.

 

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CARBONDALE, ILL.—The warning signs hang above hundreds of kilometres of highway, flashing the same message from Illinois to Tennessee: “SOLAR ECLIPSE. AUGUST 21. PLAN AHEAD.”

On Monday, the moon will pass in front of the sun and cast a shadow over a 112-kilometre-wide cross-section of the continent known as the “path of totality.” It will be the country’s first total solar eclipse in nearly 40 years, and an estimated 12 million people are expected to witness it. That estimate may well be low.

A good chunk of those people will watch from somewhere along Interstate 24. It’s a smooth, straight highway that cuts across the American heartland, passing cornfields, churches, Chik-fil-As and dozens of billboards bearing stern instructions not to leave your car to look at the sun.

This is the road to totality. And already, eclipse chasers are congregating here, ready for the moon’s shadow to fall on them.

Rose Gilbert arrived days ago. It took the Columbia, Md., resident 11 hours to drive herself, her husband, three of their daughters and Gilbert’s octogenarian parents to Nashville, where they’ve rented a house with a view of a lake and a wide open stretch of sky.

“Suppose it’s cloudy?” asks her father, Carl Landi. He’s been skeptical about this whole endeavour since she first proposed it more than a year ago. (“Had it been up to me, I probably wouldn’t be here,” he confides privately.)

“Then we’ll get in the car and drive,” Rose replies, not missing a beat.

She and her husband, John, wouldn’t call themselves astronomy buffs. She’s a nurse, he’s a physician assistant. They don’t own telescopes or plan their vacations around celestial events.

 

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Eclipse is just the latest stop in a star-studded journey | Toronto Star

How to Explain the Total Solar Eclipse to Your Kids

 

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This is dedicated to the million of people who will be watching the eclipse...

 

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[h=1]The Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 Is Happening Now! Watch It Live Here[/h]

 

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How NOT to watch it.

 

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How NOT to watch it.

You can't cure stupid.

 

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Look, what's that :don'twantto-see:/