The Great American Eclipse Is Expected To Arrive By This Time Next Year

Science Jeanette Walsh
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Plans for festivities, parties and celebrations are already well underway in preparation for the greatest and most spectacular solar eclipse in American history which is expected to arrive in just about a year time.

While visitors have been promised “a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event” at Nashville, the uncommon phenomenon has been referred to as “a rare, mind-blowing cosmic experience” by organizers of the Oregon SolarFest.

According to scientific researchers observing the cosmos, a total solar eclipse will appear on the American horizon on August 21, 2017. Historically, such occurrence has never been observed in the country, since it was founded in 1776. In other words, it will be the first total eclipse the country will ever experience.

Never has there been an opportunity of any sort to see a total solar eclipse with a wider coverage, not since 1970. NASA says that it will be the first total solar eclipse of its kind to travel across the whole country in 99 years.

During a total solar eclipse, day turns to an eerie twilight which occurs when the moon gets in the way of the sun. As it quietly travels through 12 states in the U.S. more Americans are likely to witness this event than ever before.

Observers say a 67-mile wide path will be traced as the eclipse journeys east across the country after commencing on the West Coast in Oregon. The South Carolina’s East Coast will be its final point of exit. The total eclipse is expected to last for about 2 to 3 minutes at any given location.

Cities such as Kansas City, Lincoln, Neb., Idaho Falls, Salem, Ore., Columbia and Charleston, S.C and Nashville will directly see it passing over them.