How Solar Eclipses Illuminate the Marvel of Science
On Monday, August 21, 2017, the world will go under, or so it might well feel like if you position yourself along a 70-mile-wide swath of the US from South Carolina to Oregon. From here you can witness the moon move in front of the sun in the middle of the day and darken the skies above you. A total solar eclipseis a spectacular event that has struck fear into people throughout history, and at…