Stunning spectacle is witnessed by millions across the continent. Here are some of the stories
Watch: Stunning images of the total solar eclipse crossing North America.
What many saw on Monday was a phenomenon like no other: the Moon moving between the Earth and the Sun, extinguishing its light in a total solar eclipse.
She had learned all about the eclipse in her fifth-grade class at Dallas Academy and on Monday morning, she laced up her shoes and tucked four pairs of eclipse glasses into her pink purse - one for herself, one for each parent, and one for her little sister, Abigail.
Clouds slid in and out, occasionally blocking the eclipse from view until the Sun had vanished, nothing left but little flares of light around the Moon."I didn't think it would be like that," Ady said.
As the sky brightened, the group cut wedding cakes and danced - all part of the aptly named Total Eclipse of the Heart festival.
By 15:13 local time, the total eclipse had plunged the midwestern state of Ohio into darkness.
Texas will not be in the path of totality again for another 300 years, so she'll have to travel for the next one in North America, in 2044.And by that time, she'll even more an expert on total eclipses.
Path of darkness - scroll every mile of total eclipse.
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