{"id":812382,"date":"2026-08-13T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812382\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:16:09","slug":"photos-total-solar-eclipse-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812382\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Total solar eclipse 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/08\/12\/science\/live-news\/total-solar-eclipse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">total solar eclipse<\/a> created a stellar spectacle for millions of people on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This celestial phenomenon occurs when the moon moves between the sun and Earth, casting a shadow on our planet that completely blocks the sun\u2019s light from some areas of the world.<\/p>\n<p>People in Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, Spain and a small portion of Portugal witnessed the skies go dark for about two minutes. Those in Spain enjoyed a rare sunset eclipse and watched a crescent sunset afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a partial eclipse, in which the moon appears to take a \u201cbite\u201d out of the sun, occurred over the northern United States, Canada, much of Europe and northwestern Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A total solar eclipse created a stellar spectacle for millions of people on Wednesday. This celestial phenomenon occurs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-812382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812382","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=812382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}