NASA has a game to help kids learn about the solar eclipse: Play now

On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible to over 30 million people across North America. To help kids learn about solar eclipses, NASA is launching Snap It! An Eclipse Photo Adventure.

Designed for kids ages 7 and up, the Snap It! game lets players help out an enthusiastic character called the Traveler who loves to explore the universe. A frequent character in previous games, NASA has used the Traveler to teach about black holes.

The game is available at https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/snap-it-eclipse-game/en/.

The total solar eclipse on April 8 will completely block the Sun’s light from reaching parts of eastern and southern North America. People in these areas will be treated to the ghostly-white outer atmosphere of the sun, known as the corona, when the moon completely blocks out the sun’s disk during the total eclipse, NASA explained. The rest of the U.S. will see varying degrees of a partial eclipse.

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Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, as well as small parts of Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee are along the path of totality. In the U.S., the path of totality will start in Texas at 1:27 p.m. CT and will end in Maine at 3:35 p.m. ET (2:25 CT.) In those states, the periods of greatest darkness will reach up to 4 minutes, 27 seconds.