Rare Solar Eclipse Coming to the Bay Area

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Solar eclipses happen roughly every six months, but they are rarely visible. This weekend, however, Bay Area residents will be able to see the moon pass in front of the sun in an annular eclipse. Another one, a total eclipse, is expected to cross our skies in April 2024. The celestial spectacles will be the last events to appear over the continental U.S. until 2045. We’ll dig into the science of solar eclipses, how to safely view an eclipse and hear the latest in space exploration. Guests: Andrew Fraknoi, astronomer and professor, Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco and the OLLI Program at SF State; author of many textbooks and popular books about astronomy Marina Koren, staff writer, The Atlantic. Koren covers space for the magazine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.6	Have you heard there's a solar eclipse tomorrow morning? One of the most special phenomena on this planet Earth, and it will be visible here in the Bay Area. Let's all just hope it's a good omen.
1:04.0	In preparation for the moon passing in front of the sun, we'll talk with astronomer Andrew Frachnoy and Atlantic space writer Marina Corrin about the science of solar eclipses and the state of play in our exploration of the cosmos.
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1:45.8	It's one of my lifelong dreams to see a total eclipse of the sun.
1:51.6	No event on Earth seems to provide proof quite as dramatic that what happens out there really, truly matters down here. Some of the best, wildest writing I've ever read originates
1:58.2	in our moon crossing our star. Annie Dillard, who you might know is a gorgeous
2:02.7	nature writer, visited an eclipse in eastern Washington many years ago, and she wrote an essay
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