People will brace themselves next month to experience one of nature’s best sights: turning day into night during a total eclipse of the sun.
The record-setting astronomical event will occur on April 8 for about 4 minutes and 28 seconds, beating the Great American Eclipse that darkened U.S. skies from Oregon to South Carolina for 2 minutes and 42 seconds in August 2017.
This year’s celestial spectacle has a busier route, making waves from Mexico’s Pacific coast in Mazatlan up through Texas and Oklahoma, zigzagging across Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Its final destination is Newfoundland, Canada, around 3:46 a.m. Eastern time before exiting out toward the Atlantic.
Forty-four million people live within the 115-mile totality where the eclipse will make its appearance across North America. According to the Great
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