Solar Eclipse to Astonish New Jersey and the U.S. On August 21

Americans will be treated to a spectacular total solar eclipse on Aug. 21 in an approximately 70-mile-wide zone stretching from the Northwest to the Southeast. In New Jersey, a partial eclipse will begin at about 1:20 p.m., peak at about 2:45 p.m. and end shortly before 4 p.m. that day. The moon will block about 70 percent of the sun at the state's northern border to 80 percent in Cape May, according to Carlton "Tad" Pryor, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

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