How lucky is that? The US will witness its second total solar eclipse in seven years on 8 April
Celestial mechanics says any one spot on the Earth's surface should experience a total solar eclipse only once every 375 years, on average.
What's more, the upcoming 8 April eclipse will be even better than the one they got to see in 2017.
As many as 200,000 people are expected to flood prime viewing locations in southern Illinois for The Great American Eclipse, Part II. But this will be true all along the eclipse path, from Mexico's Pacific coast to Canada's Atlantic seaboard.
"This is going to be the most populated eclipse in the US, with 31.5 million people able to just walk outside of their homes to experience it," Dr Kelly Korreck, the US space agency's eclipse programme manager, told BBC News.
The 2024 total solar eclipse will begin way out in the Pacific Ocean, with the inhabitants of Penrhyn Atoll, part of the Cook Islands, greeted by a darkened Sun at dawn, at 06:40 CKT.The Moon's shadow, or umbra, will then race across the Earth's surface at more than 2,500km/h, crossing the Mexican coast at 11:07 MST and the Rio Grande border between Mexico and the US at 13:27 CDT. Getty Images.
A total solar eclipse affords a rare opportunity to study the Sun's corona.
You might think that with all the space telescopes trained on the Sun these days that there's very little an eclipse can add to the sum of solar knowledge.
Eclipse Soundscapes will record how the natural world, particularly animals, react when plunged into darkness.
Eclipse Megamovie will once again employ an army of DSLR cameras to capture an extended view of the event.
Montana and North Dakota will see the tail end of a total solar eclipse in 2044, but the next such event to cross a broad swathe of the US won't occur until the following year.