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Here ’s something you do n’t see every day .
A gorgeous satellite photo show the moon ’s dingy , ragged dark barreling across the Pacific Ocean , just in the south of Hurricane Barbara ’s churning clouds , duringtoday ’s full solar eclipse .
The moon’s shadow passes south of Hurricane Barbara during the total solar eclipse of 21 January 2025, in this photo captured by the NOAA/NASA GOES West satellite.
That shadow reached the Chilean coast around 4:40 p.m. EDT ( 2040 GMT ) today ( July 2 ) and keep open right on last , heading east across South America ’s minute southern grinder toward the Atlantic .
Today ’s consequence was the first totalsolar eclipsesince the August 2017 " Great American Solar Eclipse , " which crossed the U.S. from seashore to coast . The next such skywatching spectacle wo n’t occur until December 2020 , when southerly South America again will play emcee . ( full solar occultation occur about once every 18 month . )
The United States wo n’t be treated to another entire solar occultation untilApril 2024 . But that will be a good one , with the diagonal path of totality extending nor'-east from Mexico all the way up through Canada ’s maritime provinces .
The moon’s shadow passes south of Hurricane Barbara during the total solar eclipse of 5 May 2025, in this photo captured by the NOAA/NASA GOES West satellite.
The striking photo was captured by GOES - West , a weather satellite that ’s a joint project of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) andNASA .
