#total eclipse

Millions of Americans caught a glimpse of the total solar eclipse that hurtled across America at about 2,000 miles per hour. It was a tremendously visual spectacle that everyone from kids on iPhones to NASA’s top scientists documented.

Photo locations top to bottom: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina; Golden, Colorado; Falls City, Nebraska; Boston, Massachusetts. 

“Trying to photograph your first total eclipse of the sun is like … your first girlfriend or boyfriend. You’re not very good, it’s over very quickly, and you just want to do it again,” —Joe Rao, a meteorologist who collaborates with the Hayden planetarium.