{"id":735744,"date":"2026-08-12T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735744\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:30:11","slug":"solar-eclipse-live-uk-and-europe-countdown-begins-as-millions-expected-to-watch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735744\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar eclipse live: UK and Europe countdown begins as millions expected to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where the path of totality will followpublished at 17:26 BST<\/p>\n

17:26 BST<\/p>\n

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

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

Astronomy enthusiasts in Burgos province making their preparations in the hours ahead of the eclipse<\/p>\n

The path of totality is the narrow, fast-moving strip of Earth swept by the Moon\u2019s darkest shadow. <\/p>\n

Stand inside it and, for a minute or two, the Moon blocks the Sun completely: daytime falls away.<\/p>\n

Move even a short distance outside that track and it is different. The Moon still takes a huge bite from the Sun \u2014 a big partial eclipse.<\/p>\n

The shadow will first hits the far Russian Arctic at 17:58 BST<\/a>, then races over the Arctic Ocean. <\/p>\n

It reaches eastern Greenland, where the late-afternoon Sun slips briefly behind the Moon, before crossing western Iceland. <\/p>\n

Reykjav\u00edk gets its moment at around 18:48BST.<\/p>\n

The shadow then skims across the North Atlantic and heads for Europe: brushing north-west Portugal, then sweeping across northern Spain from Galicia towards to me in Burgos, then Bilbao, Zaragoza and Valencia.<\/p>\n

Finally, as the Sun sinks, the shadow reaches the Balearic Islands. <\/p>\n

Palma is among the last places to see totality, at about 19:32 BST.<\/p>\n

It will be a black disc hanging low above the Mediterranean, before both eclipse and daylight fade away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where the path of totality will followpublished at 17:26 BST 17:26 BST Pallab GhoshScience correspondent, reporting from Burgos,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-735744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}