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Are you ready? A total solar eclipse comes to North America on Monday, April 8. It will enter over Mexico’s Pacific coast, dashing across the U.S. from Texas to Maine before exiting over eastern Canada into the Atlantic.
The peak spectacle will last up to 4 minutes, and 28 seconds in the path of total darkness – a 115-mile-wide path that slices across the continent. That’s the place to be to experience the full eclipse – most of the rest of the continent outside the path of totality will get a partial eclipse.
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During a total solar eclipse, the moon lines up perfectly between the Earth and the sun, blotting out the sunlight. On April 8, the moon’s shadow will slice a diagonal line from the southwest to the northeast across North America, briefly plunging communities along the track into darkness.
North America won’t experience totality again until 2033, but only in Alaska.
