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The Bonkowski family from Seattle uses homemade viewers made from cardboard boxes and welding lenses as they take in Monday's eclipse in McGregor, Texas.
Visitors watch and take photos as the sky darkens during a total solar eclipse at Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
Visitors watch and take photos as the sky darkens during a total solar eclipse at Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
Visitors watch and take photos as the sky darkens during a total solar eclipse at Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
The light of the sun forms a diamond effect during the total solar eclipse over Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
The light of the sun forms a diamond effect during the total solar eclipse over Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
The light of the sun forms a diamond effect during the total solar eclipse over Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
The light of the sun forms a diamond effect during the total solar eclipse over Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
St. Louis Public Schools employees, from left, Brenetta Underwood, Natasha Winston, Aja McCoy, and Pamela Bryant, take in the view of the maximum stage of the partial solar eclipse around 2 p.m. on Monday, April 8, 2024.
Monday's eclipse hangs over the ALICO Building in downtown Waco, Texas.
The total eclipse of the sun is seen in Historic Ste. Genevieve, Mo., on Monday, April 8, 2024.
The total eclipse of the sun is seen in Historic Ste. Genevieve, Mo., on Monday, April 8, 2024.
Tongues of burning gasses can be seen coming off of the sun during the total eclipse, as seen from historic Ste. Genevieve, Mo., on Monday, April 8, 2024.Â
Visitors to Wendt Beach in Angola, N.Y., create "Eclipse 2024" using stones in the beach sand.
Crowds gather at Niagara Falls State Park in New York to watch as the solar eclipse begins on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
A park visitor takes a selfie while wearing the eclipse glasses as the eclipse begins at Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
Planes perform a flyover as the solar eclipse begins at Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
The eclipse breaks through the clouds at Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
The eclipse breaks through the clouds at Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
A spectator looks through eclipse glasses at Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
The eclipse breaks through the clouds at Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
The eclipse breaks through the clouds at Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
The eclipse breaks through the clouds at Niagara Falls State Park in New York on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News)
Mariah Marks, clad in intergalactic-themed pants, reads a copy of "The Great Gatsby" as clouds cover the eclipse at Sahlen Field in Buffalo, N.Y., April 8, 2024. (Libby March/Buffalo News)
Miesha Saharan of Amherst, 4, poses for a selfie with her her parents, Lokesh and Mamta Saharan, during the total solar eclipse viewing at Sahlen Field in Buffalo, N.Y., April 8, 2024. (Libby March/Buffalo News)
