Total Solar Eclipse on August 21, 2017 is a Great American Eclipse

It is true that there will be a total eclipse of the sun in 2017? Yes, call it the Great American Eclipse! The total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 will mark the first time since 1979 that the shadow track, also known as the “path of totality,” will travel across the contiguous U.S. and no other country, Space.com reported.

The total eclipse will be seen by an estimated 12 million people who fortuitously live within the totality path.

Notable cities inside the totality path include Idaho Falls, Idaho; Casper, Wyoming; Grand Island, Nebraska; Lincoln, Nebraska; Columbia, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Columbia, South Carolina; and Charleston, South Carolina. The metropolitan areas of Kansas City, Missouri, and St. Louis are right on the edge of the totality path.

Map of the path:

The next eclipse with a similar path of totality will occur on August 12, 2045.