The duration of a total solar eclipse always varies. In April 2024, the eclipse that crossed North America lasted 4 minutes and 28 seconds. By contrast, the one that will reach Spain in August 2026 will only last 1 minute and 43 seconds. In less than two years, both will be put to shame by the longest conjunction of the century.
When a swathe of Europe goes dark for over two minutes during next summer's total solar eclipse, some lucky travelers will be able to watch the shadow of the moon sweep across a landscape of glaciers from the deck of their explorer yacht. That's thanks to expedition yacht charter specialists EYOS Expeditions, which unveiled a one-of-a-kind opportunity to charter a yacht to witness the eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026, from one of the world's most untamed wildernesses: East Greenland's Scoresby Sund.
When a total solar eclipse plunged North America into darkness on the afternoon of April 8, 2024, the songbirds in Bloomington, Ind., suddenly fell silent. In the middle of the forest, the only sounds biologist Kimberly Rosvall could hear were the croaks of nocturnal frogs and the distant howl of a coyote. But when sunlight returned after four minutes of night, the songs did, too, as hundreds of birds greeted the morning in unison with a cheerful dawn chorus.
Rising in orderly and attentive Virgo, the new moon and solar eclipse on Sept. 21 might feel like it's drilling down into some familiar recent themes - as Virgo season has been dominating the cosmic landscape over the past month, and August's new moon also took place in this mutable earth sign's realm. Having back-to-back new moons in Virgo is a rare phenomenon, but this alignment allows for September's solar eclipse to flush any remaining unnecessary clutter out of your heart,
This Virgo season has been unlike any other. It has given us a full month to practice a new way of being. The first new Moon and lunar eclipse on August 22nd cracked open the door to healing old stories about our worth. The solar eclipse on September 21st is about to blow that door wide open, offering us the chance to step through and claim our power once and for all.
If you get a chance to see a total lunar eclipse, such as the one on September 7, 2025, go for it. This one in particular was visible to people in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. And it was spectacular!But don't worry if you missed it because there will be another four opportunities to witness a total lunar eclipse before the year 2030.
In the summer of 1999, I was a 19-year-old with an interest in astronomy, but no real idea of what I wanted to do with my life - then I saw my first total solar eclipse.
