{"id":115421,"date":"2026-08-13T18:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/115421\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:28:39","slug":"sun-watchers-gather-across-europe-to-look-up-at-rare-solar-eclipse-national-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/115421\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun watchers gather across Europe to look up at rare solar eclipse | National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"SWNS_HEAHTROW_SOLAR_01_167347\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1690\" height=\"1226\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>A passenger plane flies in front of the solar eclipse as seen in Heathrow, UK. 90% of the sun was covered by the moon as seen in England. (SWNS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Large groups of people gathered in parks, observatories and open spaces across Europe and beyond to watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2024\/02\/15\/solar-eclipse-chaser-has-seen-cosmic-events-on-all-7-continents\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">celestial event<\/a> as the moon passed in front of the sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The eclipse was visible as a <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2026\/08\/11\/3-ways-to-watch-a-solar-eclipse-without-eclipse-glasses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">partial eclipse<\/a> across much of Europe, northwestern Africa, Canada and parts of the northern United States.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"SWNS_DARTMOOR_SOLAR_20\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1762\" height=\"1176\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>People gather at Hound Tor in Dartmoor to watch the partial solar eclipse. 90% of the sun will disappear behind the moon for people viewing in England. (William Dax via SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Talker<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Observers within the path of totality experienced the sky briefly darkening as the sun was completely covered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Aug. 12 eclipse was the only total solar eclipse of 2026 and <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2026\/07\/29\/solar-eclipse-wont-be-this-big-again-until-2081\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the most significant eclipse<\/a> visible from the U.K. since 1999, drawing large crowds hoping to witness the rare spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Solar eclipse seen in Bristol\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1762\" height=\"1176\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>People queue on the downs in Bristol to watch the partial solar eclipse. The sun will be 90% covered by the moon as viewed in England. (Tom Wren via SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Talker<\/p>\n<p>Get any of our free email newsletters \u2014 news headlines, sports, arts &amp; entertainment, state legislature, CFD news, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyomingnews.com\/newsletters\/\" class=\"btn btn-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Explore newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A passenger plane flies in front of the solar eclipse as seen in Heathrow, UK. 90% of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44938,44939,57991,4150,44940,24224,44937,4,41176,57992,4145,44931,57641,4162,43772,4154,28792,57990],"class_list":["post-115421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-europe","tag-astrological-aspects","tag-astronomical-events","tag-astronomical-events-of-the-solar-system","tag-astronomy","tag-bodies-of-the-solar-system","tag-eclipse","tag-eclipses","tag-europe","tag-natural-events","tag-new-moon","tag-outer-space","tag-solar-eclipse","tag-solar-eclipses","tag-solar-system","tag-space-plasmas","tag-space-science","tag-sun","tag-total-solar-eclipses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}