A rare 'Devil Comet' will appear during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Here's how to see the Mt. Everest-sized space rock.

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Copet 12P/Pons-Brooks streaking across a dark, starry sky with a bright yellow star shining on the upper left.
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks glows green as it streaks through space with bright star Hamal shining in the background. You might be able to spot this comet during the total solar eclipse.

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The 10 biggest cities where you can view Monday's total solar eclipse, from Texas to Indiana, Ohio, and New York

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Moon eclipses the sun with whispy white clouds in the foreground against a darkened, grey sky
Depending on your location this April, the moon will completely eclipse the sun — what's called "duration of totality" — for over 4 minutes.

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Scientists built a 3-ton camera with a 5-foot-wide lens to discover hazardous asteroids that NASA can't see

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Travis Lange, the deputy project manager of the LSST, shone a flashlight into the LSST Camera, which has a 5-foot-wide lens.

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NASA is making a new clock that ticks faster than any on Earth to help its astronauts keep time on the moon

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Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan stands next to a flag and a rover on the moon..

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NASA is investigating where a chunk of metal that smashed into a Florida house came from

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The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, October 4, 2018.
The object may have come from the International Space Station.

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A NASA probe flew straight through an explosion from the sun, and found a key clue to how solar storms form

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The sun blows out a coronal mass ejection, February 24, 2015.

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Underwater photos from the World Nature Photography Awards reveal stunning scenes beneath the world's oceans

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Young humpback whale in Tonga.
Location: Tonga.

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14 breathtaking wildlife photos from the World Nature Photography Awards

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Two gannets under the water. Shetland Islands.
Two gannets under the water in the Shetland Islands.

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10 James Webb space photos reveal cosmic nurseries where stars come to life

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Collage of stellar nurseries
A very young star forming within the dark cloud L1527 (top left), the "Cosmic Cliffs" (top right), the Tarantula Nebula (bottom left), and the Chameleon I molecular cloud (bottom right).

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Webb ERO Production Team. Image processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Mahdi Zamani (ESA/Webb).

The eclipse will affect solar power in states like California that are far outside the path of totality

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usa map with band showing path of total solar eclipse from Texas to Maine
A map showing where the moon's shadow will cross the US during the 2024 total solar eclipse.

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