The eclipse was only fully visible to sky watchers in a 125-mile-wide swath across Chile and Argentina in the path of totality, where the shadow of the moon passes across the Earth as the moon blocks out the sun.
The Moon’s Shadow in space touches down on Earth this afternoon — crossing Chile & Argentina.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) July 2, 2019
Behold, a Total Solar Eclipse. pic.twitter.com/CGkjy43slh
While the eclipse was only fully visible to those directly in the moon’s shadow, those in most of the country got see a partial eclipse.
It was the first total solar eclipse since 2017, when another one caused excitement across a large part of the United States as people crowded into the path of totality to observe the phenomenon which lasted more than two minutes in some areas.
LIVE: Watch as a total solar eclipse streaks across the sky in South America#EclipseSolar2019 #EclipseEnSanJuanhttps://t.co/tXWazBKVzW
— WIRED (@WIRED) July 2, 2019
A total solar eclipse will pass over a large swath of the southern Pacific and South America today.
— NPR (@NPR) July 2, 2019
We look back at the 2017 total solar eclipse that passed over 14 states — from Oregon to South Carolina. pic.twitter.com/qR1Togb4wF
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