Watch The Live Stream Of The 2016 Total Solar Eclipse

Get ready, sky watchers! The total solar eclipse is upon us and things are about to get gloomy. Parts of southeast Asia will turn dark from 6 p.m. EST on Tuesday as the moon passes between the Earth and the sun. You can watch the spectacular celestial show unfurl at the same time here, via the Slooh community observatory's live stream: The eclipse begins over Indonesia (where Slooh is broadcasting from) and will travel 8,800 miles northeast over Borneo, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Ocean. At its widest point, the shadow of the eclipse will measure 97 miles across. "The cool thing for those who are going to be in the path of totality is that they are going to be able to see the outer atmosphere of the sun called the corona," C. Alex Young, a solar astrophysicist from NASA, told The New York Times. "This is only visible from the ground during a total solar eclipse." The spectacle will last for three hours, and at each location the eclipse will block out the sun's light for anywhere between 90 seconds to 4 minutes.  "Though only people along the narrow path of totality will see the total eclipse, millions more will see some degree of a partial solar eclipse in Asia and the Pacific, including Hawaii, Guam and parts of Alaska," NASA said in a statement. "A partial eclipse will also be visible along the path of totality for over an hour before and after the total eclipse." The space agency created this animation to detail the path that the eclipse's shadow will tak...
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