BREAKING NEWS TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 2017 AS SEE BY NASA

BREAKING NEWS TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 2017 AS SEE BY NASA 

NEW YORK, NY — Do you want to watch the 2017 total solar eclipse as it passes across the United States? If you're not in the "path of totality," you won't be able to see the sun completely block out the sun, unfortunately. But you're in luck: You can watch a live stream of the event below with footage from across the country as well as unique perspectives in the upper atmosphere provided by NASA.

Coverage will begin at 12 p.m. Eastern. But the main events begins at 1 p.m. Eastern, when the total eclipse itself will begin to pass across North America. For any given location, the total eclipse will only last a few minutes.

"This will be the first total eclipse to span the U.S. since 1918," Alex Young, associate director for heliophysics at the Goddard Space Flight Center. "And scientific instruments have come a long way. The event presents a perfect opportunity to shed light on phenomena such as solar flares and coronal mass projections."

NASA will use 68 telescopes along the path of totality to get as much information about the phenomenon as possible.

The path of the total eclipse begins on the West Coast, in Oregon, and over the course of a couple of hours, the moon will block out the sun across the country, concluding in South Carolina. (For more national stories, subscribe to the Across America Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

Many of those not in the path of totality will still be able to see a partial eclipse. However, you need special glasses to watch a partial eclipse, because the sun's rays can damage human eyes. Even those in the path of totality may injure their eyes if they look at the sun before it is completely occluded by the moon. If you're at all worried about looking at the sun, feel free to just watch NASA's 100 percent safe live stream.

"Over the course of 100 minutes, 14 states across the United States will experience more than two minutes of darkness in the middle of the day," explains NASA. "Additionally, a partial eclipse will be viewable across all of North America. The eclipse will provide a unique opportunity to study the sun, Earth, moon and their interaction because of the eclipse’s long path over land coast to coast."