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No eye protection is needed — unlike a solar eclipse, a total lunar eclipse is safe for naked-eye viewing throughout.
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Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2026
Wisconsin residents missed out on the first solar eclipse of 2026, but a lunar eclipse will be visible across the state in just a few weeks.
—Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 19 Feb. 2026
An annular solar eclipse takes place when the moon — at a distant point in its elliptical orbit — passes between the sun and Earth, blocking the vast majority of its surface while leaving a thin sliver of its outer disk visible to appear as a burning halo in the sky.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2026
And a total solar eclipse—when the moon passes in front of the sun and fully obscures the star from our view—will grace the Northern Hemisphere on August 12.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
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Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2026
Wisconsin residents missed out on the first solar eclipse of 2026, but a lunar eclipse will be visible across the state in just a few weeks.
—Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 19 Feb. 2026
An annular solar eclipse takes place when the moon — at a distant point in its elliptical orbit — passes between the sun and Earth, blocking the vast majority of its surface while leaving a thin sliver of its outer disk visible to appear as a burning halo in the sky.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2026
And a total solar eclipse—when the moon passes in front of the sun and fully obscures the star from our view—will grace the Northern Hemisphere on August 12.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
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“Solar eclipse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solar%20eclipse. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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