Eye safety is critical during an eclipse! Make sure you wear your eclipse glasses when looking at the sun. You may remove them for the 4 minutes and 9 seconds of totality. | Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Stunning view of yesterday's total solar eclipse! Check out this video from yesterday's total solar eclipse, when the moon pass directly in front of the sun. It happened from 8:38 to 8:42 p.m. EST March 8. As the moon passed precisely between the sun and Earth – a relatively rare occurrence that happens only about once a year because of the fact that the moon and the sun do not orbit in the exact same plane – it blocked the sun’s bright face, revealing the tenuous and comparatively faint solar a