Eclipse
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Newyork
You Don’t Just See a Total Solar Eclipse. You Feel It Completely.
Almost one year ago, in the middle of the night, I drove from my hometown, Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Dublin to catch an early morning flight to Munich. From there I caught another plane to Bangkok, another to Singapore and yet another to Perth in ...
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World
The Eclipse That Ended a War and Shook the Gods Forever
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 ...
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Newyork
Fulfilling Our Mom’s Dream to See the Solar Eclipse
If all goes according to plan, on April 8, our 75-year-old mother, Nancy, will be settled into a lawn chair in Waco, Texas — some 1,300 miles from her recliner in Las Vegas — and joining a great many other Americans as they put on solar eclipse ...
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News
Back in the ’90s, This Eclipse Webcast Put the Cosmos on Demand
A total solar eclipse in Aruba was streamed to millions of users of the World Wide Web in 1998, helping to start an ongoing era of viral videos of space and astronomy.
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Newyork
Prisoners Who Sued Over Lockdown Will Be Allowed to View Solar Eclipse
The six inmates at an upstate New York prison had said the eclipse was “a religious event that they must witness.” A statewide prison lockdown will remain in place.
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Newyork
New York Prisoners, Denied a Solar Eclipse Viewing, Sue the State
Six men at an upstate New York prison said that the eclipse has religious significance and that a statewide lockdown order preventing them from watching it violated their rights.
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Science
A Lifetime Under the Moon’s Shadow
A total solar eclipse, when the cosmos clicks into place with the worlds aligned like cue balls, may be one of the most profoundly visceral experiences you can have without ingesting anything illegal. Some people scream, some cry. Eight times, I’ve ...
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Science
The Eclipse Was So Nice, They’re Doing It Twice
The rendezvous between the sun and the moon in 2017 captivated a small region in the Midwest. Lucky for Americans at the eclipse crossroads, they get to see it again.
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Science
They Can’t See the Eclipse, but This Device Will Help Them Hear It
A device called LightSound is being distributed to help the blind and visually impaired experience this year’s event.
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US
No Eclipse Plans? Try These Last-Minute Strategies.
On April 8, parts of 13 U.S. states, Mexico and Canada will plunge into midday darkness. Miss this spectacle and you’ll have to wait till 2044 for the next one so close to home.