Aug. 12, 2026, offers a rare double-header for skywatchers across northeastern North America: a partial solar eclipse during the afternoon followed, hours later, by the peak of the Perseid meteor shower beneath dark summer skies. The eclipse is part of a total solar eclipse happening in eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain.
"The neat thing about seeing a partial eclipse, especially one that is total somewhere else, is that you get to join in with the whole event that's going on," Tyler Nordgren, astronomer and eclipse artist at Space Art Travel Bureau, told Space.com. "It is a worldwide event, and you can get a sense of the three‑dimensional nature of the universe."
