Solar eclipse 2024: What causes it and how can you watch safely?

Name: Solar eclipse 2024: What causes it and how can you watch safely?
Uploaded: 2024-03-28T16:22:06.000Z
Duration: 58 s
Description: What causes eclipses and how can you watch safely? BBC Weather's Sophia Herod explains.

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A total solar eclipse will darken the skies over large parts of North America on 8 April.

A partial eclipse will also be visible in some areas of the UK.

But what causes eclipses and how can you watch safely?

BBC Weather's Sophia Herod has sent us this.

28 March