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A uncommon atmospheric occurrence will hap connected Monday, April 8: a star eclipse.
Millions of Americans wrong nan way of totality will beryllium capable to intelligibly spot nan satellite and nan sun overlap.
Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts said pinch Fox News Digital up of this year’s star eclipse to item his acquisition successful abstraction — and what it was for illustration to witnesser 1 while connected a abstraction flight.
Virts has traveled to abstraction aggregate times. He said he'd ever wanted to be an astronaut and going to abstraction was a dream travel true.
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"All of my spaceflights were amazing. That was a dream that I had since I was a small kid — I wanted to beryllium an astronaut," he recalled.
During his 2 spaceflights, Virts spent complete 200 days successful abstraction piloting nan Space Shuttle Endeavor connected STS-130 and commanding nan International Space Station during Expedition 42/43 from 2014 to 2015, according to Virts’ website.
The star eclipse will hap erstwhile nan satellite covers nan sun. (iStock)
Virts, however, was known arsenic nan image taker while successful space. He joked that those onboard said he mightiness person taken nan astir pictures of anyone ever successful space.
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"It’s astonishing getting to beryllium successful space, not only looking at our planet, but besides looking retired to nan postulation and different planets — [that] was a really nosy portion of it," he said.
Fox News Digital said pinch Terry Virts, a erstwhile NASA astronaut, up of nan uncommon star eclipse, which will return spot connected April 8, 2024. (SONIC Drive-In)
Virts witnessed a star eclipse while successful abstraction successful 2015 and said it was thing he ne'er thought he would beryllium capable to see.
"There was an eclipse complete nan North Atlantic, and you could look retired and spot this benignant of achromatic information protector moving crossed Earth," he recalled.
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He added, "It’s a very different acquisition seeing it from Earth, but from abstraction was beautiful cool, too."
Virts, who is partnering pinch SONIC up of nan April 8 star eclipse, said he recommends that anyone trying to position nan arena travel prepared pinch nan correct tools.
SONIC is giving retired viewing glasses pinch nan acquisition of nan brand's limited-edition blackout slush float. (SONIC Drive-In)
"Get yourself immoderate bully eclipse glasses that are safe," he said.
He continued, "You don’t want to look astatine nan sun pinch your eyes. You don’t want to look astatine nan sun moreover pinch normal eclipse glasses — truthful earlier nan satellite covers nan sun, you can’t look astatine it."
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Virts recommended heading to 1 of nan 400 SONIC locations successful nan way of totality for a limited-edition blackout slush float and viewing glasses.
"It’s astonishing getting to beryllium successful space, not only looking astatine our planet, but besides looking retired to nan postulation and different planets was a really nosy portion of it."
He besides said to get arsenic adjacent to nan mediate of nan totality way successful bid to get nan champion viewing, arsenic that tin make a large difference.
The 2024 star eclipse will beryllium viewable successful afloat totality crossed this way connected April 8. (Yasin Demirci/Anadolu/Getty Images)
"It’s astonishing to look astatine nan sun while it’s blacked retired by nan moon, but return a fewer seconds and look down astatine nan horizon," he noted.
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He added, "Notice what nan wildlife is doing. The animals don’t cognize … truthful they’re benignant of freaked out."
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As for really Virts is spending his imaginable 4 minutes of eclipse viewing this year, he said he’ll beryllium successful nan Dallas-Fort Worth area successful Texas to get nan champion experience.
A erstwhile NASA astronaut elaborate what a star eclipse looks for illustration successful abstraction and really to safely position nan upcoming moment. (SONIC Drive-In/iStock)
Guests who acquisition a blackout slush float astatine SONIC will person a free brace of eclipse viewing glasses while supplies last. The marque says nan limited-edition dragon fruit-flavored slush is filled pinch "eclipse-like darkness" to observe nan occasion.
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The adjacent star eclipse viewing opportunity successful nan U.S. will beryllium connected August 23, 2044, according to NASA.
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