Solar Eclipse 2017: The Must-See Photos

By Brittany Roston

The hotly anticipated solar eclipse has wrapped up for most of the country, and the results are rolling in. Called a once-in-a-lifetime event, this particular solar eclipse had a path of totality spanning from one coast to the other, giving the majority of the U.S. (and Canada and Mexico) a look at both a partial and/or full eclipse. If you happened to miss it, don't worry: the photos and videos are rolling in, and they're stunning.

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Perhaps one of the most stunning images of the solar eclipse is a composite photo of many snapshots taken by NASA. The photo, shown in the tweet below, features a clear image of the International Space Station as it passes through the light, showing its path across space just as the solar eclipse gets started.

Of course, there are tons of amateur and private photography and videos, too. You can rewatch livestreamed broadcasts of the eclipse as seen from various places throughout the nation, for example. You can check out CNN's wrapped up videos here. NOAA, for its part, got a video of the shadow darkening a large portion of the US.

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Yet more images were captured in stunning detail thanks to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which has also shared an animation of the ISS moving across the sun via 1500 assembled images. You can view that here. The flight center also has a bright orange image of the Sun with only a small 'bite' taken out of it.

Twitter is also packed full of eclipse footage and videos taken by people in unique situations. The video embedded in the tweet below, for example, shows the eclipse as taken by someone while skydiving. Scroll down for more interesting shots. Do you have a favorite photo of the eclipse? Drop us a link!

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