Miss the totality? Google Maps will make you feel better

Enlarge (credit: Google) Earlier today, millions of Americans flocked to a strip of land about 70 miles wide stretching from Portland, Oregon to Columbia, South Carolina to view a once-a-decade total solar eclipse. Now the totality is over, and everyone is trying to go home. And as these screenshots from Google maps demonstrate, it’s causing traffic jams […]

Solar eclipse die-hards use this clever trick to see totality longer than anyone else

Shutterstock For the first time in nearly 100 years, the shadow of a total solar eclipse is going to sweep across the United States. The umbra — the darkest shadow cast by the moon blocking the sun — will appear in the Pacific Ocean and slice through 14 US states on Monday, August 21. Starting […]

How to safely watch the solar eclipse — even if you’re not in the line of totality

Matt Hecht Most days we barely give the giant, searing-hot ball of plasma in the sky a second thought. That will change dramatically on Monday, August 21: when the total solar eclipse sweeps across the continental United States for the first time in nearly 100 years. If you’re not careful, though, the sun still will […]