Local NPR for the Cape, Coast & Islands 90.1 91.1 94.3
In This Place

Looking Skyward: Get ready to view solar eclipse

CAI | By John Basile
Published October 5, 2023 at 1:09 PM EDT
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Email

Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio
An annular solar eclipse creates a "ring of fire" around the Moon.
JAXA/NASA Hinode spacecraft.

The United States is in the path of the next two solar eclipses. The first occurs this month (October). The second, and more dramatic, eclipse is not until next April.

Learn more:
The Maria Mitchell Association
https://www.mariamitchell.org/

NASA
https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/

In This PlaceLooking Skyward
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
John Basile
John Basile is the local host of All Things Considered weekday afternoons and a reporter.
See stories by John Basile
  1. Looking Skyward: Contact with Voyager 1 is restored
  2. Looking Skyward: Get ready for T Cor Bor (It's a star!)
  3. Looking Skyward: Lunar and solar eclipses coming this spring
  4. Looking Skyward: Newly discovered galaxies test understanding of dark matter
  5. Looking Skyward: Two missions enhance knowledge of asteroids