Eclipse
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Opinion
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…
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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…
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Opinion
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…
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World
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…
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World
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…
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World
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…
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US
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…
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US
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…
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US
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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Travel
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…