The Bliss of Seeing the Eclipse From Cleveland

The best outfit of the day was worn by a man in an astronaut’s jumpsuit done up in Cleveland Browns orange, with the word “Brownstronaut” across the back. The best animal of the day was the perfect bald eagle at Cleveland’s Museum of Natural History, roosting high in his enclosure, taking in the morning sunlight and warmth, heedless of the fact that the source of that light would, before the afternoon was out, be obscured. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The best quote of the day came from my 21-year-old, Paloma, as we gathered with thousands of others on the lawn of the Great Lakes Science Center, when she turned to me and said, simply, “Thank you.”  (She also said, “This was so worth missing class for,” though that one moved me less.) Paloma and I were just two of an estimated one million people who flocked to northeastern Ohio for the Women’s Final Four games of the NCAA basketball tournament, opening day for Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians, and—much more transcendently—the total eclipse of the sun, which began at 1:59 PM EDT and reached totality at 3:13 PM EDT. Read More: Why Your Head and Eyes Hurt After Viewing the Eclipse “Look at ‘er go,” called out one woman in the crowd as the moon took steadily bigger bites out of the sun. “I literally have a tear,” said someone else. A DJ outside of Nuevo Modern Mexican & Teq...
Source: TIME: Science - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Uncategorized Eclipse Solar Eclipse 2024 Source Type: news