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Are you wondering what to do with your eclipse glasses now that the April 8 total solar eclipse has come and gone? The nonprofit group Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) has partnered with libraries, schools, museums, businesses and other organizations across the U.S. and Canada to collect and recycle gently used eclipse-viewing glasses.
The highly anticipated total solar eclipse is here and we're rounding up the best images of the phenomenon from across the web and social media. Here is where you'll find the first and the latest eclipse images, as they come in.
The path of totality crossed four states in Mexico (Sinaloa, Nayarit, Durango and Coahuila) before sweeping over 15 U.S. states (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine) and seven Canadian Provinces (Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland). Some 31.6 million people live in the totality path in the U.S. alone, NASA officials have said.
Did you see the total solar eclipse? If you were one of the lucky ones with cloudless skies on Monday (April 8), you might be hooked on eclipse chasing for the rest of your life. And if you were one of the unlucky ones stuck under clouds, well, there's always next time. But when is that next time? If you're willing to travel abroad, not that long: two years and change. But if you want to stay in the U.S., you'll be waiting a while: nearly a decade.
Brilliant Venus is about to go on a three-month sabbatical, as it will become masked the brilliant glare of the sun during its slow transition from the morning to the evening sky. Meanwhile, little Mercury, coming off an excellent evening apparition in March, will swing back toward the sun and into the morning sky during the second week of April, but don't expect to see it again until month's end.
SpaceX launched 11 satellites on its first-ever Bandwagon-1 class rideshare mission from Florida tonight (April 7) and aced an evening rocket landing just minutes later.
There are many words that could be used to describe WASP-76b - hellish, scorching, turbulent, chaotic, and even violent. This is a planet outside the solar system that sits so close to its star it gets hot enough to vaporize lead. So, as you can imagine, until now, "glorious" wasn't one of those words.
SpaceX just took another step toward the next launch of its Starship megarocket. The company conducted a static fire test with its latest Super Heavy booster, the 33-engine Starship first stage, on Friday (April 5) at its Starbase site in South Texas.
(BREAD Collaboration /Ralf Kaehler/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
While the Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD) developed by the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab hasn't turned up dark matter particles just yet, the new results place a tighter constraint on the type of characteristics scientists can expect such particles to have. The BREAD experiment itself also served up an exciting new recipe that could be used in the hunt for dark matter - a relatively inexpensive one that doesn't take up a vast amount of space.
