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Annular solar eclipse 2024: Everything you need to know about the next solar eclipse

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I proposed to my fiancée under the diamond ring of totality

(Josh Dinner)

I spent the last year planning my proposal to coincide with the 2024 total solar eclipse, lining up the perfect photo, figuring out what I would say, and getting the timing just right. I couldn't be happier with how the day went. I'm not sure when it dawned on me, but with totality passing directly over my house, the chance to capture the eclipse's diamond ring effect as I popped the question was one I couldn't pass up.

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Annular solar eclipse 2024: Everything you need to know

(Lucas Sweany / Getty Images)

Now that the "Great North American Eclipse" is over, you may be itching for the next opportunity to witness another celestial marvel. So when is the next solar eclipse?

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Total Solar Eclipse 2024

What to do with your solar viewing kit after the eclipse

(Josh Dury)

After the main solar eclipse event is over, apart from driving for miles and avoiding congestion, thoughts turn to what to do next with your solar filter apparatus. Yes, these pieces of solar observing kit are affordable, but they can also be reused for upcoming celestial events and astronomical observations. It's always best to reduce, reuse, and recycle where possible. This applies to eclipse glasses, viewfinders, and a whole host of other astronomical apparatus. Read on for some ideas.

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Totality was a total bust for me - but not why you may think

(Daisy Dobrijevic)

It felt like an apocalyptic scene as an ominously dark lunar shadow raced across the sky, flanked on all sides by a rusty red hue that illuminated the clouds from above and cast an otherworldly scene for us watching from below. Everyone was so excited for the celestial wonder unfolding above. Though we couldn't see the eclipse, we could certainly feel it. The atmosphere was electric. Then, darkness fell.

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Skywatching

The next total solar eclipse will be Europe's 1st in 27 years

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It's been 25 years since a total solar eclipse passed through Europe, but on Aug. 12, 2026, totality will come to the extreme northwest and southwest of the continent.

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Spaceflight

'Heavy' history: ULA launches final Delta rocket

(Josh Dinner)

After six decades of launches, the liftoff of the last-ever Delta rocket on Tuesday (April 9) brought with it a change in the way the U.S. sends satellites, interplanetary probes and spacecraft into Earth orbit.

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Science & Astronomy

Thousands of meteorites could be lost in Antarctic ice

(José Jorquera (Antarctica.cl), University of Santiago, Chile)

Hundreds of thousands of pristine meteorites are currently littered across, or just below, Antarctica's icy surface. But most of these space rocks could be lost forever over the next few decades as they sink further into the ice due to rising temperatures, a new study suggests.

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SpaceX

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites in nighttime liftoff

(SpaceX)

It was the second launch and landing for this particular booster, according to a SpaceX mission description. Its lone previous liftoff sent SpaceX's four-astronaut Crew-8 mission toward the International Space Station on March 5.

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Technology

Quantum computers will be no match for 'space encryption'

(NanoStockk/Getty Images)

Quantum computers will break encryption one day. But converting data into light particles and beaming them around using thousands of satellites might be one way around this problem.

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