{"id":115177,"date":"2025-08-03T08:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T08:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115177\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T08:51:09","slug":"6-minute-solar-eclipse-coming-in-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115177\/","title":{"rendered":"6-minute solar eclipse coming in 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) &#8211; Mark your calendar if you like to plan ahead for unique celestial events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">NASA<\/a> says a total eclipse of the sun, one that will last more than six minutes and 23 seconds at its peak, will take place two years from now on Aug. 2, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The solar eclipse\u2019s length will be one of the longest in several decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Scientists say crossing that six-minute threshold will be similar to an eclipse that happened in 1991, which lasted six minutes and 53 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/\">Space.com<\/a> predicts the 2027 eclipse will be the longest one to occur until 2114.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The eclipse will be visible in parts of Africa, Europe and the Middle East, but most people in the United States will not get a chance to see it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A solar eclipse happens when the moon moves between the sun and the Earth and casts a shadow on Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) &#8211; Mark your calendar if you like to plan ahead for unique celestial events. NASA says a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[72282,72280,72279,72281,72284,916,72287,72277,159,71660,72276,72278,783,67,132,68,72286,72285,72283],"class_list":{"0":"post-115177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-2027-solar-eclipse","9":"tag-6-minute-solar-eclipse-2027","10":"tag-6-minute-solar-eclipse","11":"tag-august-2027-solar-eclipse","12":"tag-longest-solar-eclipse","13":"tag-nasa","14":"tag-nasa-solar-eclipse","15":"tag-next-solar-eclipse","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-solar-eclipse","18":"tag-solar-eclipse-2027","19":"tag-solar-eclipse-schedule","20":"tag-space","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-what-is-a-solar-eclipse","25":"tag-what-is-the-longest-solar-eclipse","26":"tag-when-is-the-next-solar-eclipse"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114963984312067390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}