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Live updates: Total solar eclipse sweeps across Europe - CNN
WorldBy Katie Hunt, August Phillips, Jackie Wattles, Elise Hammond, Isa Soares, Chris Dolce, Ashley Strickland, Taylor Nicioli, Tal Yellin, Mary Gilbert, Jacopo Prisco, Clint Alwahab8/12/20261 min read
A total solar eclipse is cutting a path across parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, Spain and Portugal.
✨ Key Highlights
- A total solar eclipse crossed Europe, drawing millions of spectators to prime viewing spots across Iceland and Spain to witness the rare event.
- It marked the first time since 1905 that mainland Spain could see the moon completely block the sun, according to the coverage.
- The next total solar eclipse will pass over southern Spain, North Africa, Saudi Arabia and Yemen on August 2, 2027, per NASA.
- Dr. Ryan French, a solar astrophysicist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder, Colorado, and coauthor of "Little Book of Eclipses," called the 2027 eclipse "the one to be at," noting totality will last more than six minutes — the longest in the remainder of our lifetimes.
- The contiguous US faces a longer wait until August 22, 2044, when totality will only touch North Dakota and Montana.
- Beyond the path of totality, millions saw a partial eclipse: coverage reached 9% in New York City, 7% in Philadelphia, about 85% in Berlin and 92% in Paris, with viewers using eclipse glasses and even a colander in London to observe the spectacle.
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