Total Solar Eclipse Wows Skywatchers Across Pacific
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 09:30
in Earth & Climate
The skies went dark over parts of Indonesia and the Pacific Ocean region Tuesday evening as the only total solar eclipse of 2016 took hold. The moon briefly blotted out the sun for observers in a 90- mile-wide strip of land and sea— the "path of totality"— that stretched east across Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and other islands, all the way to an empty patch of the Pacific...