What is the path of the 2024 total solar eclipse?
What is the path of the 2024 total solar eclipse?
Learn about the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, by watching this NASA visualization of the Moon's umbra—the darkest part of the Moon's shadow—as it crosses North America.
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
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NASA Scientific Visualization StudioLearn about the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, by watching this NASA visualization of the Moon's umbra—the darkest part of the Moon's shadow—as it crosses North America.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Pres. John F. Kennedy rallying the people of the United States to support NASA's Apollo program to land human beings on the Moon, September 12, 1962.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Overview of the Hubble Space Telescope, including how it works and its important discoveries.
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Courtesy of Northwestern University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)How the billion-year-old Midcontinent Rift helped form Lake Superior.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.A solar eclipse is a celestial phenomenon occurring when the Moon appears to block out the Sun.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.In ancient China, some thought a solar eclipse was actually a dragon devouring the Sun.
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Created and produced by QA International. © QA International, 2010. All rights reserved. www.qa-international.comThe distribution of the seven continents.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.An overview of spatial relationships between the Sun, the Moon, and Earth during eclipses of the Sun and the Moon.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn about a total solar eclipse by observing it when it reaches totality.
