April 8, 2024: Southern Illinois plunged into darkness and onlookers offered a standing ovation for the last total solar eclipse the contiguous United States would see for the next two decades.

As Americans wait for the next chance to see a total solar eclipse from the U.S., here's a look back at the 2024 event.

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Now that the total solar eclipse has come and gone over Ohio, when will we see the next one? You can put your eclipse glasses away for a few decades. Or centuries, depending on where you are in Ohio.

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One year ago this week, a total solar eclipse passed through a major swath of the U.S., delighting the tens of millions of Americans who lived within its path or traveled out of their way to make ...

A: Muskrats are common around the Chicago River system, particularly the branches. Downtown, they are a rarer sighting. The lunar eclipse nearly maximum. Nicholas Kriho photographed the lunar ...

WASHINGTON — One year ago today, on April 8, 2024, millions of people across North America paused to witness a total solar eclipse. The rare celestial event gave hundreds of millions of ...

The next solar eclipse that crosses a significant portion of the continental U.S. will be in 2045, said Arav. That year, a solar eclipse on Aug. 12 will darken skies in parts of the U.S., Haiti, ...