Millions watch solar eclipse across North America

Thousands made the celestial pilgrimage to Mexico's Pacific coast to witness what humans rarely see: the moment the Moon crosses exactly the path between our Earth and the Sun, blocking its light and sending a collective gasp toward the world. sky the last time a total

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was visible. in the US it was 7 years ago in 2017 and one won't be seen again for another two decades. Hi, thanks, so at the mall in Washington DC they didn't take any chances, the school kids were out and the glasses. We were all over the world is so excited your friends are excited oh what are you doing?

Where are you going to see your

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? And the enthusiasm is contagious, but it's like when the sun and the moon go together, they cross paths, the moon, um, passes by. directly in front of the sun casts a shadow on the earth oh you're right, a

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eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the earth and the sun blocking its light, while most Americans will experience some type of partial eclipse. 15 states are in the so-called path of totality, where lucky viewers will wear special glasses to experience a total blockage of the sun, it will first appear along the Pacific coast of Mexico and then the eclipse will cross into the US. , where states such as Texas, Missouri, Indiana and New York are located.

They will witness total blackout before the eclipse crosses into Canada. In total, more than 31 million Americans like these will gather in Indianapolis, and they haven't experienced a total eclipse in more than a thousand years. Today the clouds that will allow us to see the moon will completely obscure the sun. we're all excited we're ready to be there we're ready for this I've been planning this for months but

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more will set their sights on the heavens and pray that they too will witness at least some of the celestial phenomenon that won't return to Grace American Skies until 2044 and speaking of the skies, NASA took full advantage of sending Jets into orbit to chase the Moon's Shadow and study the normally invisible outer edges of the sun in unprecedented detail.

Normally, when it is not an eclipse, it is quite difficult to study. just the corona, but when you block most of the sun, you can isolate just that outer atmosphere, which you normally can't do unless there's a total eclipse. The experience of your life. Eclipses have taken hold of the collective imagination since time began. I thought they showed the wrath of the gods, but nowadays the fear of impending doom has been replaced by much more modern concerns. If you have a dog or cat, let's say at home, don't let that dog or cat go out to look at the sun.

Pets aside, most people will come out for the chance to witness the magic of a total eclipse where day will transform into night for four fantastic minutes and then life will return to normal until the next, well, I'm standing here as you can see. With my glasses on to protect my eyes from the sun's harmful rays, this may seem a little strange since we are still in daylight. Here you can see everything around me, but I can tell you when I put them on like this and look up. there I can see the moon starting to slide across the surface of the Sun now we are not expecting a complete eclipse here a complete

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eclipse uh DC is not on the path of totality that you saw there in my article but we are expecting about 87% of the sun will be completely obscured by the moon in the next 20 minutes or so, as you can see, hundreds of people have gathered here in the mall behind me, we were told that the solar eclipse will take about 68 minutes. to cross North America and will travel at the phenomenal speed of 1,500 miles per hour, everyone here is waiting with bated breath and all eyes on the sky for the partial eclipse we expect around 8:20 p.m. its time as the eclipse travels across America uh all eyes on the sky as I say clouds permitting we should see a partial eclipse in the next 20 minutes or so