Las Vegas largely lost out on getting a good peek the solar eclipse on Monday, but the viewing wasn’t a total bust.
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Thank the stars — or, more precisely, the sun, moon and Earth — for giving us a reason to turn the start of just another workweek into an excuse to party.
Oregon’s Depoe Bay is preparing for the first total eclipse to traverse the continental United States in a century as if a natural disaster was bearing down on the small coastal city.
It will be tough eclipsing this eclipse. The sun, moon and Earth will line up perfectly in the cosmos on Aug. 21, turning day into night for a few wondrous minutes, its path crossing the U.S. from sea to shining sea for the first time in nearly a century.
Common sense holds that one should never look directly at an eclipse of the sun. On August 21, ABC News will do it so you don’t have to.
On Aug. 21, officials expect a lookout point just outside the small town of Madras to be crammed with people from around the world, all hoping for the first glimpse of the moon’s shadow as it crosses Mount Jefferson’s snow fields. Then, a solar eclipse will throw the entire region into complete darkness for two minutes.