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Solar Eclipse Travels Back in Time

BACK TO THE FUTURE

An eclipse this week will travel through both space and time.

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A total eclipse of the sun will begin on Wednesday, and then end on Tuesday.

You read that right. The 90-mile shadow of the moon will travel almost 9,000 miles over Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific, at one point crossing the international dateline and stepping a day back into time.

If you miss it tomorrow—or the day before—you’ll have to wait till the future for the next solar eclipse, in August 2017.

...Or you can check out the livestream at The Daily Beast here!

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