ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA’s) calendar of solar eclipses, there will be the longest solar eclipse for the past hundred years on August 2, 2027.
Its total phase will last for 6 minutes and 23 seconds. During this time, regions of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East would fall under the shadow of the moon.
According to the NASA map, the path of the eclipse would start from Morocco and southern Spain. It will move through Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and to the coast of Somalia. Its greatest length will be in Egypt, especially within Luxor and Aswan, known for their temples of death.
Despite the many conspiracy theories that run rampant on the occasion of every solar eclipse, eclipses don’t affect your health and don’t have any physical consequences on the planet.
It is a natural and predictable astronomical phenomenon, the result of the interaction between the sun, the moon, and the Earth. Moreover, solar eclipses are not unique to Earth: Mars and the moon also experience them, as we were able to see recently.
Other Solar Eclipse of High Duration
There are more total solar eclipses that will have similar durations, but all involve decades of waiting. According to NASA’s calculations, these are other solar eclipses of high duration:
- 2045, August 12: 6 minutes, 6 seconds
- 2060, April 30: 5 minutes, 12 seconds
- 2063, August 24: 5 minutes, 49 seconds
- 2078, May 11: 5 minutes, 40 seconds
- 2081, September 3: 5 minutes, 33 seconds
- 2096, May 22: 6 minutes, 6 seconds
