A total solar eclipse finished its path over North America earlier today. An estimated 32 million people in the United States were in the path of totality and could see a total solar eclipse. This included the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
According to a story from the Associated Press, full solar eclipses occur every year or two or three, but they are often in places where almost no one can see them. The next big one for the U.S. is in 2045. That one is expected to stretch from Northern California all the way to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Sports radio and television hosts talked about the eclipse as part of their content today and several also posted to social media. ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith posted a video of him watching right as it happens.
“Science is amazing,” he said. “It’s fascinating…it just reminds you of how marvelous science is because they’re telling me it’s three minutes away and we come out here, and sure enough it is happening right when they said it was supposed to happen. It’s crazy.”
Smith is asked if the eclipse was everything he thought it would be and responds, “It was everything I thought it would be because I didn’t think anything about it. Everybody’s been talking about it, and I didn’t particularly care. But seeing it, it’s nice to see…it is fascinating, it really is.”
