Marylanders may be able to catch a partial glimpse of the total solar eclipse set to cross North America on April 8. The moon will completely block the face of the sun, darkening the sky for those in the “path of totality,” which includes some 31 million Americans across 15 states. “It will look like the sun is being cut into a crescent shape like a cookie with a bite taken out of it,” said Allison Youngblood, a research astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and a deputy project scientist for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
