The solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 demonstrated once again an immutable fact of the universe: Nature rules.
As much as humans screw things up – with pollution, with climate change, with overconsumption, with politics – Nature’s cosmic forces are still more powerful than we are.
Those forces were on full display April 8, when millions of people across the United States gathered to collectively observe the phenomenon that occurs when the moon casts a shadow over the Earth as it blocks the rays of the sun beaming down on us from 93 million miles away.
What Makes a Total Solar Eclipse So Special?
I’d seen partial eclipses before. But, I’d never seen the moon completely eclipse the sun. Friends and colleagues who had said it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I live in the Washington, DC area. There’d be a good…
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