Totality of the Solar Sphere

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Logan Fisher

The moon completely covers the sun.

 

Many students at Holt witnessed for the first time a solar eclipse. On August 21, 2017, students gathered on the football field with their teachers.

“It was cool because it is something we can never see again,” said Sydney Tamborski (‘21).

That is a fact, and the attendance of students, faculty and administration on the field showed. It was seemingly a magical, interesting thing, seeing the eclipse.

How does a solar eclipse occur, one may ask?

This celestial event is a solar eclipse in which the moon passes between the sun and Earth and blocks all or part of the sun for up to about three hours, from beginning to end, as viewed from a given location,” says NASA

The next solar eclipse in the continental United States will reportedly be on April 8, 2024, according to CNN. The totality line however, is slightly different, so Wentzville will not see any totality, unfortunately. To see the 2024 eclipse, you would have to travel to southern missouri for any totality.