The next total solar eclipse in the contiguous US will occur on August 22, 2044, with a path of totality stretching from Greenland to North Dakota.

The ocean of onlookers around her had been watching a total solar eclipse unfold through paper glasses shaped like what you might've gotten as a child before a 3D movie, similarly meant to prime the human eye for a new layer of vision — in this case, a painless view of a shrinking orange sun. But Stirm didn't need paper glasses.

Joseph Fluhr from Hawley, a passionate science teacher at Lehman Intermediate School, observed his second total solar eclipse under clear skies April 8 from Lake Placid, New York. Jack Slipe of Bushkill was in Erie and caught an amazing view as the eclipse appeared in a fortuitous break in the clouds.

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