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Gallery: The Partial Solar Eclipse of October 2014

Yesterday was the last solar eclipse the U.S. will see until August 2017. This was a partial eclipse, so the Sun wasn’t completely blocked by the Moon, but it was still a lot of fun. The detail is great; you can see the brain-grindingly huge sunspot group AR 2192 looming in the middle of the Sun’s face as the Moon blocks a big chunk of solar real estate. Astronomer Alex Parker took this wonderful shot as the Sun set behind the iconic Boulder Flatirons. I’m very much looking forward to it … since it may very well be the very first total solar eclipse I’ll have ever seen.

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