The next total solar eclipse will be the longest yet to come | CNN

If Wednesday’s total solar eclipse sparked your excitement for viewing a stellar spectacle, pull on your traveling boots and start booking accommodations. A multitude of total solar eclipses will occur across far-flung locales over the next decade — and next year’s celestial event promises to be one of the best yet. A total solar eclipse occurring on August 2, 2027, is “the one to be at because it will actually be the longest eclipse in the remainder of our lifetimes,” said Dr. Ryan French, solar astrophysicist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder, Colorado, and coauthor of “Little Book of Eclipses.” Totality, or when the moon’s shadow completely blocks the sun’s face from view, will last up to more than six minutes. The path of totality will cross southern Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen, according to the National Solar Observatory. The eclipse will pass directly over the Valley of the Kings in Luxor and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, as well as Mecca in Saudi Arabia, French said. “Crucially, the weather in August all the way along the eclipse path is pretty much guarantee