{"id":582421,"date":"2026-08-12T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/582421\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:06:10","slug":"solar-eclipse-live-uk-and-europe-get-ready-for-once-in-a-generation-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/582421\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar eclipse live: UK and Europe get ready for once-in-a-generation event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dark skies and silent birds – what happens during a solar eclipse?published at 12:22 BST<\/p>\n

12:22 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, reporting from Burgos, northern Spain<\/p>\n

The light changes first: flatter, cooler, as if the colour has drained from the day. <\/p>\n

Through eclipse glasses, you can see the Moon keeps taking bites from the Sun. <\/p>\n

Then, in the last seconds, tiny sparks of sunlight flare through lunar valleys \u2014 the diamond ring effect \u2014 and abruptly, the magic moment of totality.<\/p>\n

The moon completely blocks the Sun\u2019s bright disc \u2013 and a new object hangs in the heavens in their place – like a gigantic shimmering black pearl – for a few moments turning day into night.<\/p>\n

Around the Moon appears the corona: the Sun\u2019s extraordinary outer atmosphere, normally drowned out by daylight, now visible as a pale, pearly-white crown. Its delicate streamers stretch into the darkening sky, shaped by magnetic forces reaching far out from the Sun.<\/p>\n

\"Liverpool,Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n

Liverpool, during an eclipse in 2015<\/p>\n

On Earth the horizon can glow with the colours of sunset in every direction. Bright planets or stars may appear.<\/p>\n

For many people, the stillness is what stays with them: the hush, the change in temperature, the awareness that this familiar sky has become something utterly unfamiliar.<\/p>\n

It is a moment that moves those who are lucky enough to witness it \u2013 reminding us the wonder of the universe and out place in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dark skies and silent birds – what happens during a solar eclipse?published at 12:22 BST 12:22 BST Pallab…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,141],"class_list":["post-582421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}