A rare celestial event will be visible in Texas today. Houston will get a view of the solar eclipse at around 11:50 this morning.
Our last was in 2017. There will be another next April.
Better views will be seen in the greater San Antonio area, but we will get at least a view of a partial eclipse.
Every time one of the celestial events occurs we are reminded on long term vision complications caused by looking directly at the sun during an eclipse and the need for special ISO 12312-2 safety standard glasses, thousands of times darker than standard sunglasses.
Today's eclipse will start at about 10:30 and will be complete by close to 2.
Viewing events are planned at Levy Park, the Museum of Natural Sciences, Brockman Hall Observatory at Rice, and a special viewing will be part of the Wings Over Houston airshow.
NASA is about to launch a spacecraft on a nearly six-year mission to an asteroid that's mostly made of metal. The asteroid named Psyche [[ sye-kee ]] is about the size of Massachusetts, and researchers believe around 30 to 60-percent of it is metal. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch this morning from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
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