Eclipse appeared in America on August 21, 2017. It has been 38 years after the previous eclipse appeared in 1979.

In Korea, there was an eclipse in 1887. It was the last eclipse that Korean people could view.

NASA named the eclipse of 2017 as "The Great Eclipse" because it was the only chance to view the Sun’s corona with the advanced technology which recently evolved.

Eclipse appears because the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth and blocks all or apart of the Sun. We can see this phenomenon for up to three hours from beginning to end, depending on the location.

According to the research by Nilson, 21.5 million people watched TV shows related to eclipse.

It shows that many people paid attention to this situation. Also, it was a great opportunity for scientists to research about the eclipse.

So, thousands of scientists traveled to the eclipse's path to photograph the Sun during totality.

The advances in technology made this the first eclipse that researchers could collect the most data about eclipse.
We can view the eclipse of the Sun safely in many ways.

To view it directly, we need to view it by wearing a filtering device.

Also, we can view it by looking at it on a screen.

The next visible eclipse in the U.S. is seven years away.

It will occur on April 8, 2024. According to the experts, there will be even more people than this year with more advanced technological equipment.

     Many people paid attention to this situation because it was a great opportunity to view a special phenomenon.

One rapper named Joy Bada$$ lost his eyesight temporarily because of having viewe eclipse with his naked eyes.

There were many cases similar to this situation.

People need to be careful when viewing eclipse next time

by Sang-in Jung, 9/3, 2017