Solar Eclipse 2024

Total solar eclipse special coverage: Hour 2

The eclipse's path of totality stretches across the U.S.

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45:09Apr 8, 2024

Total solar eclipse special coverage: Hour 1

People across the U.S. are experiencing a total solar eclipse.

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45:24Apr 8, 2024

Kids sitting on a cannon in front of the Vermont State House watch the total eclipse begin in Montpelier, Vermont on April 8, 2024. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Photos: People watch in wonder as eclipse blots out the sun

As Monday's eclipse comes and goes, all of the talk has been about the sun and the moon. But it's the perspective from here on Earth that matters. Here are...

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Apr 8, 2024

Matthew Holloway and Carlotta Cox are eloping at the eclipse in Russeville, Arkansas. (Courtesy)

A ring in the sky and 'a ring on my finger': Eloping during the eclipse

More than two hundred couples getting married at an event in Russellville, Arkansas, just before the total solar eclipse reaches totality.

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05:21Apr 8, 2024

What eclipses historically reveal about human nature

What might Monday's eclipse reveal about ourselves?

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09:43Apr 8, 2024

A banner for the eclipse in Houlton, Maine. (Courtesy of Paula Woodworth)

Visitors flock to Houlton, Maine, as residents prepare for eclipse totality

Houlton, Maine, is one of the last places in the country to view the solar eclipse in totality.

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10:46Apr 8, 2024

The moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse. (Timothy D. Easley/AP)

How Indigenous people historically marked eclipses

Indigenous peoples' ancestors were the first to witness an eclipse in North America.

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05:27Apr 8, 2024

Terry Tempest Williams and her 5-year-old grandson Sheja Gakumba are going to watch the total solar eclipse in northern Maine. (Julia Corcoran/Here & Now)

Grandmother and grandson watch eclipse together in northern Maine

The 2017 eclipse was a profound experience for author Terry Tempest Williams.

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05:49Apr 8, 2024

How do animals react during an eclipse?

Animal behaviorists will be tracking how animals respond during Monday's eclipse.

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05:41Apr 8, 2024

Checking in across the U.S. before the total solar eclipse

We check in with reporters in Texas, Illinois, and upstate New York, all spots in the path of totality today, about preparations for the eclipse.

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11:40Apr 8, 2024

On the sidewalk in front of the Boston Public Library, people share protective glasses so they can look up during a 63% partial solar eclipse in 2017. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Here's what the 93% partial solar eclipse will look (and feel) like in Boston

The Boston area will see a 93% partial eclipse Monday, meaning “just the tiniest sliver of the sun” will be visible. And while that sliver makes a big difference compared...

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Apr 8, 2024

At the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury this stone lion is ready to safely view the eclipse. (Peter Engisch/Vermont Public)

Vermont braces for a massive influx of visitors as totality approaches

The path of totality includes all of Northwest Vermont, including Burlington and the Northeast Kingdom, and reaches as far south as Middlebury, Montpelier, and St. Johnsbury. As many as 160,000...

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Apr 8, 2024

Milo Dantowitz of Brookline with his telescope setup. (Courtesy Dantowitz Family)

One teen's mission to bring images of the eclipse back to Greater Boston

For the many who'll remain far away from the eclipse's 'path of totality,' a 17-year-old science enthusiast hopes to offer a digital front row seat — in the form of...

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02:33Apr 8, 2024

The town of Underhill will close two roads leading to Mount Mansfield on April 8, when emergency resources will be strained. Still, search and rescue teams anticipate tens of thousands of people will head into the backcountry to see the eclipse. (Elodie Reed/Vermont Public)

Vermont search and rescue teams beg people to not hike on eclipse day

Emergency resources will be strained as an expected tens of thousands of people travel to Vermont for the eclipse. The snowstorm this week means mountaintops will be covered in deep...

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Apr 5, 2024

Forecast for New England on Monday, April 8. (NBC Boston)

Forecast: Expect clear skies in New England for the total solar eclipse

Viewing the eclipse, whether partially or totally, will depend upon one very important factor: cloud cover. Remarkably, New England and the Northeast United States looks like it will have mostly...

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Apr 4, 2024

The moon passes in front of the setting sun during a total solar eclipse. (Marcos Brindicci/AP)

What should you listen to during the eclipse? We've got some recommendations

While you're waiting for the total solar eclipse, you need something to listen to.

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09:36Apr 4, 2024

A young boy looks at the annular solar eclipse of 1994 through a filter outside the Boston Museum of Science. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Can't make it north for the eclipse? Here's how to watch it online

If you don't live in the path of totality, but still want the full eclipse experience, where the skies darken and the sun's corona reveals itself against the blackness of...

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Apr 4, 2024

Ronald Cody, a second year graduate student in physics at Rutgers, uses a telescope to view the total solar eclipse in Nantucket, on March 7, 1970. (Bill Ryerson/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Snapshots of past solar eclipses across New England

The region has been in the path of totality five times in the past century, according to NASA. The celestial spectacles occurred in 1925, 1932, 1959, 1963 and 1970. There...

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Apr 3, 2024

Minh Ha, assistive technology manager at the Perkins School for the Blind tries a LightSound device for the first time at the school's library in Watertown, Mass., on March 2, 2024. (Mary Conlon/AP)

Blind people can hear and feel April's total solar eclipse with new technology

While eclipse watchers look to the skies, people who are blind or visually impaired will be able to hear and feel the celestial event. Wanda Díaz-Merced, an astronomer who is...

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Apr 1, 2024

The total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017 in Madras, Oregon. (ROB KERR/AFP via Getty Images)

A New Englanders' guide to catching the April solar eclipse

Parts of New England will go dark midday as the region experiences a total solar eclipse. Here's what you need to know.

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Feb 28, 2024