The Solar Eclipse
Experience the wonder of a total solar eclipse
ESO/P. Aniol, M. Druckmüller, P. Horálek
Editor's note: Educational eclipse content is free and available for all
Column: Our Island Universe: History’s Most Profound Total Solar Eclipses
Eclipses are an opportunity to do clever scientific research that can yield profound consequences about our understanding of the cosmos. Perhaps the most famous example was in 1919.
Column: A Little Learning: Poetry in Motion
Poets have long conveyed the ethereal experience of witnessing a total solar eclipse. Perhaps it’s time to give students something beyond diagrams and demonstrations, and let poetry accompany them.
Feature: The Sun, Moon, and You!
This guide will help you prepare yourself, students, friends, and neighbors — and provide tips on running events — for the April 2024 solar eclipse.
From the Archives: Observing the Sun During Eclipses
It is rare for the track of a total eclipse to pass over sizable townships, and it is even more rare when it passes over a working observatory. Yet both of these circumstances came together February 16, 1980.
Column: Education Matters: Standing in the Shadow of the Moon
We are familiar with many types of shadows, but two of the most rare and exciting relate to the Moon’s and Earth’s shadows.
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