Darkness and awe swept across southern Missouri and Illinois on Monday as the moon passed between Earth and the sun on Monday.
Total solar eclipses occur every year or two, but it is exceedingly rare for the paths of two of them to intersect only a handful of years apart, as they have in a swath of the bistate.
See photographs from the eclipse by © 2024 ÍâÍøÌìÌÃ's Eric Lee, Cristina Fletes-Mach and Brian Munoz, with contributions from the Michael Thomas and the Belleville News-Democrat's Joshua Carter.
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