WILLS POINT, Texas — Splish-splash. The moment the sun went behind the moon, the snapping turtles all simultaneously slipped into the waters of Lake Tawakoni. Twilight painted the world. Clouds raced across the sky. Just beside the moon-covered sun sat bright Jupiter, shining in the middle of the day. Most birds and insects had grown hushed or gone completely silent.
It’s hard to fully encapsulate the feeling of a total solar eclipse; how it changes the quality of the light in your surroundings, how the temperature drops so suddenly that you unexpectedly shiver (SN: 4/1/24). But on April 8, I and millions of people across North America got to
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