HOUSTON, TX — The solar eclipse is being broadcast live on YouTube.com by NASA.
The last total solar eclipse visible in the U.S. was in 1991. The path of this eclipse runs from Lincoln beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. In San Angelo the eclipse will be about 66 percent.
NASA says this solar eclipse in which the moon passes between the sun and earth and blocks all or part of the sun for up to about three hours, from beginning to end, as viewed from a given location.
For this eclipse, the longest period when the moon completely blocks the sun from any given location along the path will be about two minutes and 40 seconds. The last time the contiguous U.S. saw a total eclipse was in 1979.
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