Total solar eclipse: Who will be able to see it, when is it and why does it happen?

A total solar eclipse will dazzle people across North America in what's been described as "our planet's greatest spectacle".

The perfect alignment of Earth, the sun and the moon, which is due to be seen on 8 April, will plunge much of the continent into darkness.

But people in parts of the UK will be able to see a partial eclipse too.

Sky's Thomas Moore looks at the path of the phenomena, its timeline and explains why it occurs.

#eclipse #northamerica #science

[anammansoor]

In UK its already solar eclipse since last 6 months 😢

[jonr]

A UK channel that doesn't bother to show how close (or not) the path is to UK?? Talking as if we're in the USA?? Utterly crass.

[arnolddodd]

Well in the u.k i doubt we'll see much and it will probably be raining as usual 🤦‍♂️

[lovejetfuel]

Id be blasting some Pink Floyd while this was going on

[ryanjardine]

Why can I comment on this, but the comments on the Bradford stabbing video and turned off???

[hirohiro]

This guy did a really good job explaining it

[dalebenton]

Im here in King's Lynn Norfolk...England, No where near North America, No chance of seeing it, Last solar eclipse here was back in 1999

[ZilleHuma-ocuy]

At what time, it will be visible in uk.?

[HzHz]

12P/Pons-Books comet should also be visible at the same time, which is quite incredible really.

[Twirlyhead]

Oh thank goodness. I somehow heard it was going to be the _apocalypse._

[infinitehorizons]

"Ryoiki Tenkai: Fukuma Mizushi"

[swiatlojest]

why we cant see the moon approaching the sun as usually happens in a morning day where we can see the moon and the sun at the same time?

[MercurialRed]

MOON: Nearly 7 billion of those humanoids down there and every year fewer and fewer of them worship us.😕

SUN: IKR? But at least we still have that one trick up our orbits to make millions of ‘em look up at us at the same time, eh…😎

[The_Werd_Wzard]

When is it? Wanna try and see if I can spot a partial potentially between rain 😅

[lifewsophxo]

My bday iss today.. On rhe 8th of april-
Ig i have a lucky bday??😊

[terryrugg]

Haven't seen anything about pin hole viewing

[scottandildi]

what about the many times when the earth and moon were visible during solar eclipses in the sky🤨

[Ineedyoulou]

Sky talking to the silly people 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[nigelclifford]

There won’t be a total eclipse in London until June 2151, the last one was in May 1715 so not in our lifetime!!!! But hey maybe we should tell our grandchildren so they tell their grandchildren to look out for the path of totality in London and have a great experience in June 2151 lol!!!

[archiejane]

2026 Spain and 2027 in Gibraltar over 4 min planning on seeing both