{"id":736113,"date":"2026-08-13T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736113\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:32:08","slug":"millions-in-uk-and-europe-left-wowed-by-once-in-a-generation-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736113\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions in UK and Europe left wowed by once-in-a-generation solar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, blocking some or all of the Sun&#8217;s light and casting a shadow on our planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As time ticked by, slowly but surely the Moon obscured more of the Sun &#8211; acting like a dimmer switch as it did so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As seen from the UK, the Sun, Moon and Earth were not quite directly in line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The result was a partial eclipse, with the Moon covering about 90% of the Sun for most of the UK &#8211; the country&#8217;s most dramatic eclipse since 1999. In Cornwall, this was as high as 95%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parts of Spain got to experience something even more magical. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At roughly 19:30 BST (20:30 local time), the Sun, Moon and Earth were perfectly aligned &#8211; a total eclipse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, blocking some or all of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736113","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=736113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}