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  • REPLAY | Total Solar Eclipse 2017 | Live Coverage from the USA
    2016 Totality Highlights
    2016 Total Solar Eclipse: Live from Micronesia
    Eclipse total de sol, marzo del 2016 en Micronesia
    Eclipse Program Highlights 1998-2016
    2008 China Totality Highlights
    2008 Solar Eclipse China
    2008 Clouds Timelapse
    Total Solar Eclipse Highlights - Turkey, 2006
    2001 Zambia Highlights

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Past Eclipses & Webcasts

Total Solar Eclipse 2019 from Chile

View live streams replays of the total solar eclipse from July 2, 2019. 

Total Solar Eclipse 2017 from the U.S.A.

View live stream replays of the total solar eclipse from August 21, 2017. 

Total Solar Eclipse 2016

The Exploratorium presented a real-time webcast of the total solar eclipse from Micronesia. Our team traveled to the coral island of Woleai, in the Pacific Ocean, to bring you this astronomical event.

 

Hybrid Solar Eclipse
Sunday, November 3, 2013

A hybrid eclipse is neither totally total nor totally annular—it's both. Learn what a hybrid eclipse is and how it works here.

Annular Solar Eclipse
Thursday, May 9–Friday, May 10, 2013

Not every solar eclipse is a total solar eclipse—but there's still plenty to enjoy about annular eclipses, where the moon blocks out just the center of the sun. Learn about annular eclipses, and especially about this one from 2013.

Annular Solar Eclipse: May 20, 2012

An annular eclipse doesn't block out the whole sun—but you can still enjoy the "ring of fire" that shines around the moon when one occurs.

Total Solar Eclipse
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Discover the rare beauty of a total solar eclipse—part of a series preparing for the 2012 eclipse over the Pacific Ocean. 

Transit of Venus: The Rarest Eclipse
Transit of Venus: The Rarest Eclipse

locks out the sun, you won't find it during the Transit of Venus—that is, Venus passing in front of the sun. However, watching Venus travel in front of the majesty of the sun has its own appeal. 

Total Solar Eclipse from China: August 1, 2008

In 2008, the Exploratorium sent a team to China to livestream the total solar eclipse visible there on August 1. View the full eclipse here. 

Transit of Mercury: November 8, 2006
Total Solar Eclipse from Turkey: March 29, 2006
Annular Solar Eclipse, June 10, 2002

The view from the Exploratorium's front porch on June 10, 2002 at 5:30 p.m. (PDT)

Total Solar Eclipse from Zambia: June 21, 2001
Total Solar Eclipse from Turkey: August 11, 1999
Total Solar Eclipse from Aruba: February 26, 1998
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