Solar eclipse: Media
astronomy
Videos
In ancient China, some thought a solar eclipse was actually a dragon devouring the...
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Learn about the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, by watching this NASA visualization...
Video: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
An overview of spatial relationships between the Sun, the Moon, and Earth during...
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A solar eclipse is a celestial phenomenon occurring when the Moon appears to block...
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Watch as a shadow slowly crosses the Earth.
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A brief overview of why solar eclipses are relatively uncommon events.
Video: GSFC/NASA
Learn about a total solar eclipse by observing it when it reaches totality.
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Images
The geometry of a total solar eclipse. The shadow of the Moon sweeps over the surface...
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A map of North America showing the path of the total solar eclipse of April 8. 2024.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
A total solar eclipse, as seen from NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio,...
Jordan Salkin—GRC/NASA
Total solar eclipse. The delicately structured glow of the solar corona—or solar...
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Photograph of a solar eclipse at Rivabellosa, Spain, July 18, 1860, captured by the...
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Total solar eclipse as seen from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, August 21, 2017.
Joseph Matus—MSFC/NASA
Successive phases of a total (top) and a partial (bottom) solar eclipse. The dark...
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Interactives
An interactive map showing the 2026 total solar eclipse path of totality and partial...
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