One example is the retired astrophysicist Fred Espenak, who earned a bit of celebrity when the United States Postal Service chose his photo of an eclipse for a 2017 stamp—an efficient way to ...

"When the sun's disc is completely covered by the moon, daylight suddenly changes from bright sunlight to a very eerie twilight in a matter of seconds," Fred Espenak, a former astrophysicist from ...

"You want to avoid any type of cloud, if you can," Fred Espenak, a former astrophysicist from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and author of "Road Atlas for the Total Solar Eclipse of 2024," told ...

Professional eclipse chasers are gearing up for the April 8th, 2024 total solar eclipse. While the eclipse will pass directly over Texas, the experts won't be here. Instead, two of the world's ...

Astrophysicist Fred Espenak has seen 30 total solar eclipses over 54 years; he runs a website called Mr. Eclipse and still, he describes this sense of overwhelming awe: ...

Fred Espenak, also known as “Mr. Eclipse,” is a retired NASA scientist. He’s NASA’s eclipse expert and still maintains the space agency’s eclipse website, ...

FRED ESPENAK: The moon orbits the Earth in an elliptical orbit. When it's along the closest section of its orbit to the Earth, if that happens to coincide with full moon, then we call that a ...

And it happens twice in August,” said retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak, dubbed Mr. Eclipse for his eclipse-chasing expertise. Get Tri-state area news delivered to your inbox with NBC New ...

The next one is scheduled for Jan. 31, 2037, according to a full supermoon calendar compiled by retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak. The Farmers' Almanac notes there is a second type of blue ...