How the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Is Different than the 2017 Eclipse

A total eclipse passes over any given location once every 500 years (on average). They are mathematically predictable. Greece could calculate it to the day, and by the 1700s they could calculate it to the minute. In the last few hundred years, much of our knowledge about the sun has coming from observing it during eclipses.

Aug 10, 2024

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Locations for totality in the next30 years:

26 Spain, 27 Morocco, 28 Australia, 30 South Africa, 33 Alaska, 34 Egypt, 35 Japan, 37 New Zealand, 38 Australia, 39 Antarctica, 41 Kenya, 42 Malaysia, 44 Northwest Canada, 45 Florida, 46 Brazil, 48 Chile, 52 Southwest US, 53 Spain.