Is There a Solar Eclipse Again in September 2017

Total solar eclipses like the one crossing America today are cute, but they're tragically fleeting. Totality, when the sun is completely covered past the moon, lasts only a few minutes. And the whole thing — from the start of the partial eclipse to the end — takes merely a few hours. The experience is sublime, but it'll exit you wanting.

Here'southward the good news: Total solar eclipses happen somewhere in the world every 18 months or and then. That's how long information technology takes for the specific conditions that create eclipses (the phases of the moon, the altitude of the moon to Earth, and the moon crossing the plane of Earth'south orbit) to line support.

The very next one volition be on July two, 2019, stretching over a wide swath of the Southern Pacific before passing across Chile and Argentina.

NASA

The next solar eclipse over the United States will exist in 2024. After that? 2045. Then 2052, 2078, and, if y'all're truly blessed with longevity, a great one over Maine in 2079.

GreatAmericanEclipse.com

NASA keeps a itemize of all the eclipses (both solar and lunar) that take occurred or will occur from 1999 BC to the year 3000. That's v millennia, listen y'all.

And then that's why we know, for instance, that on January 27, in the year 2837, a total solar eclipse will laissez passer over southern Mexico (volition anyone be around to see information technology?).

At that place'south some condolement in knowing that people 1,000 years from at present can look upwards in wonderment at the same natural phenomenon nosotros see today. Life on Earth may change, just the sun, moon, and sky will not.

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Source: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/21/16178956/when-is-next-total-solar-eclipse

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