2024 the Next Total Solar Eclipse USA, and Other Future Solar Eclipses
Solar eclipses are neat because, despite the large scale and infrequency, they are incredibly predictable. While the 2017 total solar eclipse was touted as a once-in-a-lifetime event, that's probably only true for people who are VERY old. Here's the schedule for solar eclipses visible from the US within a large portions of living people's lifetimes: October 14, 2023 - Annular eclipse visible in a very similar path to the recent eclipse April 8th, 2024 - Just a year later, a TOTAL ECLIPSE like the 2017 one will occur with the path of totality passing through a line starting in Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana, and passing all the way up along the border of Canada and states like New York, Vermont and other New England states. In the United States, totality will be visible through the states of Texas (including parts of San Antonio, Austin, and Fort Worth and all of Arlington, Dallas, Killeen, Temple, Texarkana, Tyler and Waco), Oklahoma, Arkansas (including Hot Springs...