{"id":811793,"date":"2026-08-13T02:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/811793\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T02:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:44:11","slug":"the-best-photos-of-the-big-august-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/811793\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Photos of the Big August Solar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paywall\">Regions such as Galicia, Asturias, Castile and Le\u00f3n, Madrid, Aragon, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands experienced the path of totality, while the rest of the country saw a partial eclipse.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"4 eclipse Espa\u00f1a 2289700700\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4%20eclipse%20Espa%C3%B1a%202289700700.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The solar corona glows as the moon completely blocks the sun during the totality phase, as seen from San Asensio in the La Rioja region.<\/p>\n<p>Photograph: Ander Gillenea\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The event lasted about four and a half hours, while the total darkening of the sky lasted just under two minutes, allowing various space agencies to conduct scientific experiments along the path of totality.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5 eclipse Espa\u00f1a 2290193626\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5%20eclipse%20Espa%C3%B1a%202290193626.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fans of Real Madrid watch the solar eclipse through special glasses before the Teresa Herrera Trophy match between RC Deportivo A Coru\u00f1a and Real Madrid at Riazor Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Photograph: Jos\u00e9 Manuel \u00c1lvarez Rey\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">One of the most notable projects involved a NASA mission tracking the moon\u2019s shadow using a WB-57 high-altitude research aircraft that flew at 50,000 feet. A team of scientists sought to gather new data on the dynamics of the solar corona\u2014the sun\u2019s outermost atmosphere\u2014which can only be studied in detail during total eclipses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regions such as Galicia, Asturias, Castile and Le\u00f3n, Madrid, Aragon, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[6626,76182,79,39614,193,3662,1608],"class_list":["post-811793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-astronomy","tag-eclipse","tag-science","tag-solar-eclipse","tag-space","tag-spain","tag-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}