The 2017 Solar Eclipse: What You Need to Know

On August 21, 2017, the United States will experience its first total solar eclipse since 1979! If you re in the right place at the right time, you re in for a spectacular show! Eclipse calculator: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in.html SciShow Solar Eclipse Pinhole Viewer Postcard: https://store.dftba.com/products/solar-eclipse-pinhole-viewer-postcard ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ----------Alexander Wadsworth, Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Sultan Alkhulaifi, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.space.com/36785-solar-eclipse-science-throughout-history.html http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/eclipse2.htm https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety https://www.space.com/34919-heat-bombs-warm-sun-corona.html https://www.space.com/33797-total-solar-eclipse-2017-guide.html https://conscicom.org/author/macdonaldlt/ https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/solar-minima.html http://climate.ncsu.edu/edu/k12/.solarcycles https://www.space.com/37018-solar-eclipse-proved-einstein-relativity-right.html Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_solar_eclipse_2017_USA_OSM_Zoom1.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_eclipse_1999_4_NR.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Patrial_Eclipse.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxanWTR8-yM&feature=youtu.be https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eclipsbrilletje.JPG