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What Are Your Eclipse Plans?

We want to know how you’re celebrating the celestial event of the summer.
Source: Beawiharta Beawiharta / Reuters

On August 21, a swath of the continental United States will experience one of the strangest and most wondrous phenomena it is possible to witness on Earth. A total solar eclipse will sweep the country from coast to coast. Along the eclipse’s curvaceous path from Oregon to South Carolina, the moon will momentarily block the face of the sun, obscuring

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