And woven through all of it is the unlikely coincidence that any of this is happening at all. Chance and certainty: a total solar eclipse. For more videos,subscribe to Popular Science on YouTube.

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NASA needs you! Or, more precisely, they need your phone to help study the Sun during the coming eclipse on April 8, 2024. Now we're sure conspiracy cranks are poised at their keyboards to claim ...

A total solar eclipse is both chance and certainty. Take this for example: If the radius of the Sun is 695,700 km, how can the moon—radius 1,737 km—block it out?