People watch the solar eclipse at Saluki Stadium on the campus of Southern Illinois University on ... [+] August 21, 2017 in Carbondale, Illinois. A 99% partial solar eclipse is nothing compared to a 100% total solar eclipse. In fact, an eclipse expert has calculated that a stunning 31,625,000 people in the U.S. currently live inside the path of the total solar eclipse. The excellent new "Field Guide to the 2023 and 2024 eclipses" recently published by Michael Zeiler ... [+] and Michael Bakich. Although the events of April 8, 2024 are what everyone in North America is talking about, it’s not actually the next total solar eclipse.

Source: Forbes April 07, 2022 11:29 UTC