Total solar eclipse mesmerizes America


Totality of the Great American Eclipse on August 21, 2017 at Casper Collage Wyoming. -AFP

CHARLESTON: Emotional sky-gazers stood transfixed across North America Monday as the Sun vanished behind the Moon in a rare total eclipse that swept the continent coast-to-coast for the first time in nearly a century.

Eclipse chasers and amateur star watchers alike converged in cities along the path of totality, a 70-mile (113-kilometer) wide swath cutting through 14 US states, where the Moon briefly blocked out all light from the Sun.

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