For the first time in 27 years, the people of mainland Europe were able to watch the moon pass perfectly in front of the sun and blot out its earthbound rays. That means members of Gen Alpha, and many young Gen Z space enthusiasts, just experienced their very first total solar eclipse.
Totality, the moment when the sun is fully obscured by the moon, reached Iceland around 1:49 p.m. ET. The shadow will continue west toward Spain next, which should witness a corona, the glowing solar band surrounding the sun, only visible during totality, around 2:30 p.m. ET.
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People outside of the European mainland — and that is really just Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, northern Spain, and a portion of Portugal — may be able to glance outside and see what is known as a partial solar eclipse. In this case, a crescent-shaped shadow over the sun for a brief period of time in the afternoon.
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