First Glimpses of the 2026 Total Solar Eclipse Spark Awe Across the Sky

Space.com reports the start of the 2026 total solar eclipse, with the first totality photos from Scoresby Sund, Greenland, taken aboard the MS Spitsbergen on HX Expeditions showing the sun’s corona as the moon’s shadow swallows the Sun. The eclipse path then moves toward Spain, with Space.com editors Daisy Dobrijevic and Anthony Wood providing live updates from Greenland and central Europe. Totality will sweep across the Northern Hemisphere before fading off the north coast of Africa at 2:34 p.m. EDT (1834 GMT).