Total solar eclipse 2024: Live video and updates


Students from Muchin College Prep react as the solar eclipse emerges from behind clouds in Millennium Park in Chicago on Aug. 21, 2017. (Alexandra Wimley/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Joe Westlake, director of NASA’s heliophysics division, said that more Americans will be able to see Monday’s eclipse than the one that took place in 2017, which only experienced 100% totality in “fairly uninhabited” areas of the United States.

This one, however, “hits large cities like San Antonio, Dallas, and through Arkansas, Cleveland, Indianapolis and all the way into Vermont,” he told Yahoo News. Not to mention, the path of totality will be nearly 60% wider this time, and the eclipse itself will last much longer, with nearly four minutes of 100% totality in Dallas and Cleveland.

“There’s over 30 million Americans within the path of the eclipse’s totality,” Westlake said of today’s event. “There’s another 150-plus million within a 200-mile drive of getting there. I think a lot of people across the U.S. are going to do that, which should have a big impact [on cities].”

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