{"id":856,"date":"2025-07-31T14:12:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/?p=856"},"modified":"2025-08-05T21:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:07:17","slug":"will-there-be-a-total-solar-eclipse-on-august-2-we-have-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/will-there-be-a-total-solar-eclipse-on-august-2-we-have-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Will there be a total solar eclipse on August 2? We have the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23626586 lazyload\" alt=\"MARTIN, OHIO - APRIL 08: The moon passes in front of the sun during a solar eclipse on April 08, 2024 in Martin Ohio. Millions of people have flocked to areas across North America that are in the &quot;path of totality&quot; in order to experience a total solar eclipse. During the event, the moon will pass in between the sun and the Earth, appearing to block the sun. (Photo by Gregory Shamus\/Getty Images)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_258518566-e4e4.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>A solar eclipse in Ohio last year (Picture: Getty Images North America)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one thing that the Earth, Moon and Sun have in common, it&#8217;s that they love to get their groove on.<\/p>\n<p>The three celestial bodies are forever dancing around the cosmos and now and then, they line up perfectly, <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/07\/10\/simpsons-predict-future-scientists-plan-artificial-solar-eclipse-23626737\/\">creating an eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/03\/26\/total-solar-eclipse-2024-how-watch-where-when-20530637\/\"> solar eclipse is when the Moon slides between us and the Sun<\/a>, casting a shadow of wonder as only the wispy, outer edges of the Sun are visible.<\/p>\n<p>Eclipses can remind us all of our place in the lonely, messy cosmos &#8211; after all, they only happen because the&nbsp;Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but is 400 times closer to us. An incredible coincidence. <\/p>\n<p>They tend to last 10 seconds or so, but soon, one of the longest and most significant eclipses of the 21st century will happen.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is there a total solar eclipse today, August 2, 2025?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23626581 lazyload\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - The total solar eclipse Monday August 21, 2017 in Madras, Oregon. Emotional sky-gazers stood transfixed across North America Monday as the Sun vanished behind the Moon in a rare total eclipse that swept the continent coast-to-coast for the first time in nearly a century. (Photo by ROB KERR \/ AFP) (Photo by ROB KERR\/AFP via Getty Images)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_258518680-60b7.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Total solar eclipses only happen once every 18 months or so (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Skywatchers have been claiming online that the world will be plunged into darkness for six minutes on August 2 this year.<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>this isn&#8217;t the case,<\/strong> according to <a href=\"https:\/\/eclipsewise.com\/solar\/SEdecade\/SEdecade2021.html\">astronomical data<\/a>. It seems users have simply got the year of the lengthy eclipse wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The solar eclipse will actually take place on <strong>August 2, 2027, in 10 countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This one will be a total solar eclipse, when the Sun<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/galleries\/stunning-pictures-show-solar-eclipse-across-us-and-canada-from-space-20628250\/\"> fully disappears behind the Moon<\/a>. The moment this happens is called totality. <\/p>\n<p>A line of totality will then slowly drift across the world, where for a few brief minutes the Moon will fully block out the Sun, and darkness will swallow the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>A halo will <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/03\/29\/see-partial-solar-eclipse-suns-devil-horns-this-morning-22814412\/\">glow white behind the Moon, the Sun\u2019s corona<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where can you see the 2027 total solar eclipse?<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Spain<\/li>\n<li>Morocco<\/li>\n<li>Algeria<\/li>\n<li>Tunisia <\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Yemen<\/li>\n<li>Somalia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How long will the solar eclipse 2027 be?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"270\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23714561 lazyload\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SE2027Aug02T-d078.gif\">\t<\/div><figcaption>A simulation of the 2027 eclipse (Picture: A.T. Sinclair\/Nasa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Six minutes, which in the world of cosmic coincidences is a seriously long time, said Greg Brown, a senior astronomer at the Royal Museums Greenwich, told <strong>Metro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It varies from only a few seconds at its shortest to a theoretical maximum of 7.5 minutes,&#8217; he said. &#8216;This variation is due to the Moon and Sun varying in apparent size, itself due to their slightly changing distance from the Earth during the Moon\u2019s orbit around the Earth and the Earth\u2019s orbit around the Sun.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But how long stargazers will have to crane their necks will depend on where they live.<\/p>\n<p>The total solar eclipse will only be visible across a thin, 160-mile-long strip of southern Europe and northern Africa where 89 million live, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/eclipse\/map\/2027-august-2\">Timeanddate.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The skies will begin to darken above the Atlantic Ocean at 05.19am (UTC), just as the Sun is rising.<\/p>\n<p>While this is where totality begins, it&#8217;s not where it will be the longest. As the two cosmic giants do their dance and the Earth spins, totality will only be visible above the Atlantic for three minutes. <\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\" data-ico=\"factbox_article\" data-track-module=\"factbox_article\">\n<h2 class=\"factbox-title\">\n\t\t\t\tWhat are the different types of solar eclipses &#8211; and how to one \t\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"factbox-content\">\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"414\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23626584 lazyload\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - This combination of pictures shows different stages of the solar eclipse as seen from Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean, Chile, on October 2, 2024. (Photo by JONATHAN MARTINS \/ AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN MARTINS\/AFP via Getty Images)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_258518675-06fc.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Solar eclipses have many different stages, and which one you see depends on where you live (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solar eclipses <\/strong>occur when the Moon gobbles up the Sun, leaving a ring of fire around it. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Partial solar eclipses<\/strong> are when the Moon, Sun and Earth are imperfectly aligned, so only a chunk is obscured. <\/p>\n<p>Earth can also get between the Moon and the Sun, creating a <strong>lunar eclipse<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To watch one, please don&#8217;t stare directly at the Sun, which can permanently damage your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the Moon has completely obscured the Sun, the risk is still high. People can look at the celestial event using eclipse glasses. <\/p>\n<p>You can also project the eclipse onto the ground&nbsp;using items around the house, such as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/stories\/space-astronomy\/solar-eclipses-explained\"> a cardboard box, a kitchen strainer or even your fingers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Moon&#8217;s 258km-wide shadow will then be cast in the aptly-named Costa de la Luz, or &#8216;Coast of the Light&#8217;, in Spain\u2019s Andalusia before gobbling up the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.<\/p>\n<p>It will also envelop Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, where it will reach its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/eclipse\/map\/2027-august-2?n=%40351897\">deepest, longest&nbsp;duration at 6 minutes and 22 seconds<\/a> from 12.44pm (UTC).<\/p>\n<p>After it leaves Egypt, the total eclipse will last around four to three minutes as the shadow glides through the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>The eclipse will end with a totally eclipsed sunset near the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Some nations just to the north or south of the totality line will be able to see a partial solar eclipse, when the Moon takes a smaller bite out of the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Brown said that the UK sadly won&#8217;t catch a glimpse of totality &#8211; the nation is far too north of the line.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"430\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23626585 lazyload\" alt=\"BRADY, TEXAS - APRIL 08: The moon begins its descent below the sun&#039;s horizon during a total solar eclipse on April 08, 2024 in Brady, Texas. Millions of people have flocked to areas across North America that are in the &quot;path of totality&quot; in order to experience the eclipse today. During the event, the moon will pass in between the Sun and the Earth, appearing to block the Sun. (Photo by Brandon Bell\/Getty Images)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_258518595-728f.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Eclipses only happen due to the size and distances of the Earth and the Moon (Picture: Getty Images North America)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We will have another partial solar eclipse, with around 40% of the Sun covered in the south of England, dropping to around 20% in northern Scotland,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The partial eclipse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/eclipse\/map\/2027-august-2?n=uk%2Fpenzance\">will begin around 9.20am for us in the UK<\/a>, ending around 10.50am with the maximum occurring around 10am.<\/p>\n<p>The 2027 eclipse will be around 16 seconds shorter than the July 22, 2009, eclipse, Brown said, the longest solar eclipse this century.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;However, while the 2009 eclipse was longer, it occurred almost entirely over the ocean, making it very difficult to observe,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When is the next solar eclipse in the UK?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"646\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23779064 lazyload\" alt=\"A view of the Sun from NASA&#039;s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the Moon passing between the spaceship and the Sun on July 25, 2025. Images are in different colours because SDO observes light at many wavelengths. Incredible scenes show the Sun playing peak-a-boo with a spacecraft as the Moon eclipsed the star. NASA&#039;s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) witnessed a rare double eclipse as first the Moon and then the Earth pass between its instruments and the Sun on July 25. The Moon?s transit, the deepest of the year so far, briefly blocked up to 62% of the solar disc, leaving a sharp shadow. Just hours later, the Earth followed suit, albeit less dramatically as a spectacle as it completely obscured the Sun for over ninety minutes. Double eclipses like this are extremely rare, last seen in 2015 and 2016 from the SDO?s viewpoint. SDO is about 93 million miles (150 million kilometres) away from the Sun. It orbits the Earth at about 22,245 miles (35,790 kilometres) above the surface, so it stays roughly the same distance from the Sun as the Earth does. This position helps it keep a steady view of the Sun. Photo released 29\/07\/2025\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mississaugaoffice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_260505682-247e.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>A view of the Sun from Nasa&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the Moon passing between the spaceship and the Sun (Picture: SDO\/Nasa\/SWNS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/eclipses\/future-eclipses\/\">Nasa <\/a>says the next eclipse, a partial one, will happen on <strong>September 21<\/strong>, blanketing Australia, Antarctica and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.<\/p>\n<p>The next total eclipse will be on <strong>August 12, 2026<\/strong>. It will only be visible in a sliver of Greenland, Iceland, Spain and Russia, while Europe, Africa and North America will be treated with a partial solar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>This eclipse, Brown said, is Britain&#8217;s &#8216;best bet&#8217; for seeing this awe-inspiring sight. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The whole of the UK will experience at least a 90% eclipse and Cornwall will experience a 96% eclipse,&#8217; he said. &#8216;Definitely one to look out for.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>But if you don&#8217;t manage to catch it, you&#8217;ll have to wait a while, explained Matt Irvine, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashastro.co.uk\/Contact\/Contact.html\">Astronomical Society of Haringey<\/a>, a London stargazing club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Next one for us is, I think, 2090,&#8217; he told <strong>Metro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:webnews@metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom-start\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\"><a class=\"comment-now metro-button metro-comments-cta\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span><title>Comment now<\/title><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"comment-now__label\">Comments<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solar eclipse in Ohio last year (Picture: Getty Images North America) If there&#8217;s one thing that the Earth, Moon and Sun have in common, it&#8217;s that they love to get their groove on. 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