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Solar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse

Explore webcasts, stories, dispatches, photos, and articles of total and annular solar eclipses and transits.

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Transit of Venus: June 5-6, 2012; June 8, 2004
Transit of Venus: June 5-6, 2012; June 8, 2004
Total Solar Eclipse from China: August 1, 2008
Total Solar Eclipse from China: August 1, 2008
Transit of Mercury: November 8, 2006
Transit of Mercury 2006
Total Solar Eclipse from Turkey: March 29, 2006
Total Solar Eclipse Turkey 2006
Total Solar Eclipse Zambia 2001
Total Solar Eclipse Zambia 2001
Total Solar Eclipse from Aruba: February 26, 1998
Total Solar Eclipse Aruba 1998
Video: “Eclipse Chasers”
Video: “Eclipse Chasers”
Past Eclipse Expeditions
Past Eclipse Expeditions
Transits
Other Solar Eclipses

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