{"id":95093,"date":"2024-03-07T18:52:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T23:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=95093"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:52:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T23:52:06","slug":"countdown-to-the-eclipse-what-well-see-in-enc-in-april-and-how-to-see-it-safely","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/countdown-to-the-eclipse-what-well-see-in-enc-in-april-and-how-to-see-it-safely\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to the eclipse; what we&#8217;ll see in ENC in April and how to see it safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- 16:9 aspect ratio --><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cd4IFZkyR_I\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/eclipses\/future-eclipses\/eclipse-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">total solar eclipse<\/a> will cross North America next month, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/staff\/patrick-treuthardt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Patrick Treuthardt<\/a> is the Assistant Head of the Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics Research Lab at the <a href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences<\/a>, and he\u2019s pretty excited for the April eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody in the contiguous United States is going to be able to see at least some of it,\u201d he said, \u201cIt will be a partial eclipse for most people in the United States and for the select few in the path of totality, they&#8217;re going to they&#8217;re going to get to be able to see the sun being completely blocked out by the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On April 8, it will cross North America from Mexico, across the U.S. and into Canada, Treuthardt said, &#8220;Kind of a curved path from essentially San Antonio through Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, New York, all the way up to Maine.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicradioeast.org\/2024-03-05\/countdown-to-the-eclipse-what-well-see-in-enc-in-april-and-how-to-see-it-safely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article on Public Radio East<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr class=\"cleardiv\" \/>\n<p><em>For more information about our upcoming activities, conservation news and groundbreaking research, follow @NaturalSciences on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/naturalsciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/naturalsciences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/naturalsciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95183,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/95093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/95093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}