Sentences with phrase «minutes of a total solar eclipse»

During six minutes of a total solar eclipse on May 29, 1919, Eddington measured the positions of stars that appeared next to the blotted - out sun.

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Carbondale, Ill., is just a few kilometers north of the point where this year's total solar eclipse will linger longest — the city will get two minutes and 38 seconds of total darkness when the moon blocks out the sun.

Experience the majesty of a 2 minute 40 second total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 — the first in North America in nearly three decades!

Then on August 21, 2017, experience 2 minutes and 40 seconds of totality during the first North American total solar eclipse in nearly 30 years — and the first visible from the contiguous states since 1979.

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It's the first total solar eclipse that will be visible coast - to - coast in North America since 1979, and for a brief window of time — 2 minutes and 40 seconds, to be exact — the moon will block out the sun.