2024 U.S. Total Eclipse Explained

A rare total solar eclipse will occur across Mexico, the U.S., and Canada on April 8, 2024. TIME Editor-at-Large Jeffrey Kluger explains what will happen and the best way to experience it.
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[@californianews24]

The 2024 U.S. total eclipse must be such an exciting event to look forward to! Total solar eclipses are truly awe-inspiring natural phenomena. They offer a unique opportunity for people across different locations to come together and witness the beauty and grandeur of the cosmos in action. Imagine the moon perfectly aligning with the sun, casting a shadow over the Earth, and turning day into a brief moment of night. It's a reminder of the incredible universe we're a part of. Whether you're planning to view it with friends, family, or a community of fellow astronomy enthusiasts, it's bound to be an unforgettable experience. Make sure to have your solar viewing glasses ready and perhaps consider documenting this moment with photos or a journal. What a wonderful way to connect with the natural world and create lasting memories!

[@CatharyneLuizaDaSilva]

Thank you video

[@BradiKal61]

This is a really good video for people who don't understand the lesser known aspects of an eclipse- things like the tilt of the moon's orbit and it's elliptical shape are why we don't get frequent eclipses. Some people don't even understand that the moon is always casting a shadow and then it's just missing the earth. I've seen comments about people who said they never saw the moon during the eclipse, because it didn't realize they were looking at the back dark side of the Moon as it slid across their view of the sun. Schools today tend to focus on earth sciences and not so much space science.

[@Graycodm]

I live in Texas let’s gooooo

[@tylermachia5232]

Cloudy in Dallas💀

[@Graycodm]

We didn’t get to see it sadly

[@mattk6719]

Ours is the only planet where total eclipse can occur. The perfect size ratio of star, planet, and moon. With the perfect distance, tilt, and axis. The evidence for design is astounding.

[@carsondenny1986]

There are millions of planets and stars we know nothing about. We absolutely don’t know if we are the only planet for anything.

[@mattk6719]

@@carsondenny1986 Give a skeptic evidence and they will always give you an excuse in return.

[@carsondenny1986]

@@mattk6719 I didn’t give you an excuse - I refuted your conclusion that wasn’t based on any evidence. It’s a classic LSAT flaw.

[@mattk6719]

@@carsondenny1986 You refute that the sun, moon, and earth are perfectly sized and positioned to achieve such an eclipse that the disk of the moon fits the disk of the sun? Do you know of another?

[@Reloadeez]

There's an estimated 8-12 quintillion planets that orbit a star and have at least one moon. Let's very conservatively say that only one in 350,000 of those planets has a cosmic coincidence similar to Earth. A star about 400 times larger than the moon, but it's also about 400 times farther away. That will be 34 trillion planets. Let's estimate even more conservatively that these planets only have a total solar eclipse once every 100 earth years, compared to 2.38 per year for Earth. That would be 340 billion total solar eclipses in the universe per earth year, or 10,781 per earth second.

[@ralphw3636]

This gave me chills, and witnessing the eclipse today was wonderful. All Glory to God!

[@e4t662]

I won't be alive in 2044, glad I got to see this final eclipse. Unfortunately, I was too stoned to see it really, but it was worth it.

[@RedactedOfficial.]

sorry to hear that buddy, hope you enjoyed it. stay fried my friend

[@luis-alvarez929]

Nobody saw the moon anywhere that day 🤷‍♂️. The heliocentric model makes no sense

[@whiskeytangofoxtrot1986]

🗺

[@user-lq9oi5jq3n]

Okay.

[@dream1772]

Just curious...if a total solar eclipse occurs after 300 years how come a total solar eclipse happened in 2017 and now it's happening again?🤨

[@joecarioti629]

If you plot the course of 3 objects orbiting each other (moon around earth, moon and earth around sun), you'll see that they don't always align perfectly on a consistent basis. Sometimes they align often, other times they don't align for a long time. If it were just the moon orbiting earth without us orbiting the sun (impossible, but in theory), then it would happen consistently. Once you add in the 3rd moving object, though, the paths get much more confusing.

[@joecarioti629]

And if you think THIS is confusing, you should look into how astrophysicists figured out how Mercury orbits the sun. For certain times of the year, Mercury appears (to us from Earth) to literally stop orbiting and reverse its course. That's obviously not possible by the laws of physics, though, so we know it's just a visual side effect (or optical illusion, really) of viewing an orbiting object *from another orbiting object*.

[@TheCosmicGuy0111]

Solar eclipses on average happen about 2-4 times per year, what they meant was on the average if you were going to wait for a total eclipse to happen at your location it’d average out to be about 300ish years till it could happen.

[@Etimespace]

Savorinen and greetings to all science journalists around the Earth.❤ On April 8, 2024, Mexicans and Texans may have a chance to make history and scientifically prove the current atomic model wrong. The so-called Allais Effect may be a real phenomenon, but in such a way that it does not always occur during a solar eclipse. It would be about how close to the center of the Earth the line between the center of the Sun and the center of the Moon intersects the center of the Earth. That is, how close the alignment of the Sun, the Moon and the Moon’s shadow passes the center of the Earth. The closer, the stronger the phenomenon. If so, scientific experiments should always be done when a total solar eclipse occurs at noon and near the equator. The April 8 solar eclipse is pretty much exactly at noon in Mexico, I believe, and the area is much closer to the equator than the North Pole. Ok, there is a lot of pressure in the center of the Earth. I assume that massive and dense particles originating from the center of the Earth are pushed out of the Earth all the time, and on April 8th they are pushed through the area shadowed by the Moon directly towards the Moon and the Sun. They meet particles corresponding to the countersphere, which originate from the Sun and the Moon. During straight alignment, these particles have time to push through the corresponding particles again and again. During the pushing through of each opposing particle, there is a strong interaction and thus the energy in the particles is dispersed over a larger area and the probability of encountering the next one increases, etc. Pushing through the moon also activates these particles. Inside the moon, this small-scale energy moves more densely and inside these particles, etc. Pushing towards the moon, these particles already have time to activate more than normal, because they encounter particles that have already penetrated the moon and activated inside the moon. Physicists are already planning a new particle accelerator at Cern. Its price is estimated at around 20 billion euros. On April 8, anyone can do scientific experiments very cheaply. For example, local tennis clubs could use devices that launch tennis balls. First, the device is adjusted to fly the balls as far and accurately as possible. So it’s not necessarily worth trying to make the balls fly just as far as possible, if you can’t make the balls fly quite precisely the same distance, you know. Ok, when we find out how far the balls fly with a certain power on average normally, we wait for the Solar eclipse and when the Moon’s shadow starts to reach the area, we start sending tennis balls into the air and monitor how far the balls fly. Perhaps a surprise will be experienced during the exam. You should fly the balls in at least two different directions. From north to south and from south to north. The more distinct groups, the better. Everyone should also think about some other scientific experiments that can be done in connection with the so-called to gravitation. Traditionally, experiments have been done with pendulums and gravity measuring devices. You should also use them. If someone has ready these small rockets that don’t aim for orbit, but only test how high you can get, then maybe during the solar eclipse it would be interesting to try if you can maybe even get much higher than you could assume based on the calculation in advance. Ps. If the solar eclipse occurs in June, then I assume that it is worth doing these experiments even if the eclipse is closer to one of the polar regions than the equator and even if it is late evening or early morning. This is because then the Earth is in the area between the Sun and the supermassive object in the center of the galaxy. Perhaps from the center of the galaxy there is also a kind of matter / energy that physicists do not yet understand. At least that’s what I assume. That is, these supermassive objects in the centers of galaxies may emit dark matter as separate condensations that are much denser than the separate condensations in the nuclei of the atoms of the observable matter. The denser, the slower the internal motion / time and the less these dark matter particles would interact with observable matter. In June, when the Earth is in the area between the Sun and the center of the galaxy, these dark matter particles inside the Earth would meet the energy from the Sun in the opposite sphere and thus their internal movement / time would speed up and the interaction with the Earth’s matter would intensify. I assume that the Earth gets new matter in its center in June when these dark matter particles collide in the center of the Earth with the nuclei of the Earth’s atoms. Could the Earth even get new water molecules in its center? That is, would new solid matter, but also new water and gas molecules, be born in the center of the Earth? If so, perhaps the researchers should observe that more water and gas molecules escape from the Earth than estimated. Greetings to all Mexicans and Texans. Also for all those who have the opportunity to participate in scientific experiments on April 8. April 8, 2024 may be a very significant day for humanity, but it may not be so without you🙂 ❤️

[@rockwithyou2006]

A total solar eclipse happens once in 18 months in some place on earth. At 0:23 the speaker mentioned that on an Average, a total solar eclipse will happen in your location only once in 375 years. "YOUR LOCATION" meaning at any given place, its once in 375 years on AVERAGE

[@evaaulia333]

George kaif

[@Autismking420]

Didn't even get dark

[@conniesenesr6915]

Hey! You have no idea! 😮 what is going to happen! What beautiful! People are scared! Have some respect!!😮😮😮😢