This spring on April 8, 2024, to be exact, our moon will pass between Earth and the sun. For a small window of time during the day, the sun will go dark, temperatures will drop, and it will literally look like the middle of the night.
On supporting science journalism: If the sky is clear, you have a good chance of experiencing a natural phenomenon that, for some, happens only once in a lifetime. But what about other living creatures who don't know what an eclipse is?
The word eclipse actually comes from the Greek word for abandonment, because ancient Greeks thought that a solar eclipse was the result of their gods being angry with them and that untold misery was in store when the sun abandoned the Earth.
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