By Colleen Knight (EBC Florida Bureau) Eagle News Service BRUNSWICK, Georgia (Eagle News) – “Cloudy” and “rainy” are not the words usually used to describe ideal eclipse viewing conditions, but those were the conditions at the College of Coastal Georgia viewing party in Brunswick, Georgia, in the United States. Despite the gloomy weather, as 2 p.m. on Monday (August 21) approached, excited students, faculty and staff began to gather. A palpable tension was in […]
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News in photos: Mesmerizing total solar eclipse
Across North America Monday, skygazers and even the curious were mesmerized on Monday, August 21, as the Sun vanished behind the Moon in a rare total eclipse that swept the continent coast-to-coast for the first time in nearly a century. Solar eclipses occur when a new moon moves into a position of direct alignment with the sun and the Earth. The line-up is not precise enough for this to happen every month but […]





