{"id":85437,"date":"2026-08-13T08:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85437"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:13:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:13:42","slug":"totality-see-incredible-photos-of-the-aug-12-total-solar-eclipse-from-across-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/totality-see-incredible-photos-of-the-aug-12-total-solar-eclipse-from-across-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Totality! See Incredible Photos Of The Aug. 12 Total Solar Eclipse From Across Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> Live Science:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/JncCi25AdzuLgP8ArAcWUa.jpg\" alt=\"The sun&amp;#039;s corona is visible during a total solar eclipse, forming a luminous halo around the Moon&amp;#039;s silhouette as it completely obscures the sun&amp;#039;s bright disk.\" width=\"445\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-2c335fbc-967d-11f1-bfe6-478805a853d6\">The first photos from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/the-sun\/total-eclipse-shooting-stars-and-the-milky-way-why-aug-12-could-be-the-greatest-single-day-and-night-for-skywatching-for-years\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/the-sun\/total-eclipse-shooting-stars-and-the-milky-way-why-aug-12-could-be-the-greatest-single-day-and-night-for-skywatching-for-years\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"space\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/the-sun\/total-eclipse-shooting-stars-and-the-milky-way-why-aug-12-could-be-the-greatest-single-day-and-night-for-skywatching-for-years\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/the-sun\/total-eclipse-shooting-stars-and-the-milky-way-why-aug-12-could-be-the-greatest-single-day-and-night-for-skywatching-for-years\"><u>yesterday&#8217;s total solar eclipse<\/u>\u00a0<\/a>are here, and they&#8217;re spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>Captured Wednesday (Aug. 12) by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/nasa\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/nasa\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"space\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/nasa\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/nasa\">NASA<\/a>\u00a0scientists during a special\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rSvCuSQhC3w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rSvCuSQhC3w\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"space\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rSvCuSQhC3w\"><u>eclipse livestream<\/u><\/a>\u00a0from Spain, the images show the moon completely blocking the visible surface of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/the-sun\/sun-facts\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/the-sun\/sun-facts\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"space\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/the-sun\/sun-facts\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/the-sun\/sun-facts\"><u>the sun<\/u><\/a>, plunging the daytime sky into twilight for roughly 90 seconds and allowing our star&#8217;s elusive corona (its wispy outer atmosphere) to shine through. In this incredible image taken with a solar-filtered telescope, the moon appears as a black circle, cloaking the sun. The white spikes of light encircling the moon are the corona, a mysterious part of the sun that is rarely visible to the naked eye. (Why is it so mysterious? For one thing,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/the-sun\/mystery-of-the-suns-mind-bogglingly-hot-atmosphere-may-finally-be-solved\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/the-sun\/mystery-of-the-suns-mind-bogglingly-hot-atmosphere-may-finally-be-solved\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"space\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/the-sun\/mystery-of-the-suns-mind-bogglingly-hot-atmosphere-may-finally-be-solved\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/the-sun\/mystery-of-the-suns-mind-bogglingly-hot-atmosphere-may-finally-be-solved\"><u>the corona is millions of degrees hotter than the sun&#8217;s surface<\/u><\/a>, and scientists aren&#8217;t sure why.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Live Science: The first photos from\u00a0yesterday&#8217;s total solar eclipse\u00a0are here, and they&#8217;re spectacular. Captured Wednesday (Aug. 12) by\u00a0NASA\u00a0scientists during.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85439,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85437\/revisions\/85439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}