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Space.com

Bailey’s beads appear around the moon · Diamond ring · Atmospheric manifestation · Revealing hidden stars and planets · A horned ‘devil’ may appear! · Shadow bands · Weird colors · Bending light …

CNN

NASA’s WB-57 jets will fly within the path of totality on Monday to collect data about the sun during the eclipse. Amir Caspi/Courtesy NASA. High-altitude aircraft …

CBS News

A Russian Soyuz ferry ship undocked from the International Space Station and flew back to Earth early Saturday, bringing a Russian cosmonaut, a Belarusian guest flier and a NASA astronaut to a picture-perfect landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan.

CBS News

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CNN

New map calculations have raised some concerns that the path of totality — where it’s possible to see the moon completely block out the sun — is slightly narrower than NASA calculated. That means some cities on the edge of the route that were expecting to …

CNET

Depending on the angle at which you’re viewing the eclipse, you may see the sun completely shrouded by the moon (called totality) or some variation of it. The more off-angle you are and the farther you are from the path of the eclipse, the less likely you’ …

BBC News

It was 25 years ago when Kate Russo saw her very first total solar eclipse. The Australian psychologist was living in Northern Ireland at the time and had always wanted to witness the spectacle in person. She was in between her Masters and PhD studies …

CNN

The LightSound device, designed by Harvard University astronomers, will help make the eclipse more accessible for the visually impaired by turning light into instrument sounds. Courtesy Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

The New York Times

In the spring of 585 B.C. in the Eastern Mediterranean, the moon came out of nowhere to hide the face of the sun, turning day into night. Back then, solar eclipses were cloaked in scary uncertainty. But a Greek philosopher was said to have predicted …

TIME

A total solar eclipse will sweep across North America on Monday, April 8, offering a spectacle for tens of millions of people who live in its path and others who will travel to see it. A solar eclipse occurs during the new moon phase, when the moon …