The moon will cowl the solar on 8 April for folks in elements of the US, Canada and Mexico, creating an expertise in contrast to some other. A total solar eclipse is an unbelievable expertise, explains Patricia Reiff at Rice University in Texas. The temperature abruptly drops, it will get darkish and you may see stars and planets during the day. There are all types of phenomena to be careful for earlier than and after totality, too, like strange shadows and so-called diamond rings – shiny flashes of sunshine attributable to the solar’s rays passing alongside the uneven floor of the moon.
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