{"id":19476,"date":"2026-08-05T08:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=19476"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:46:11","slug":"like-the-end-of-the-world-the-eclipse-chasers-flocking-to-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=19476","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Like the end of the world&#8217;: the eclipse chasers flocking to Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p>Suddenly, the world is plunged into an eerie, violet darkness. The temperature drops. Birds and other animals, bewildered by unforeseen night, start behaving strangely. Stars and planets appear in the sky next to the blotted-out Sun.<\/p>\n<p>It is this awe-inspiring experience that will draw people from all over the world to northern Spain next week in the hope of witnessing a total solar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like it\u2019s the end of the world\u2026 you\u2019re changed forever if you see one,\u201d said Elizabeth Warning, one of four self-described \u201ceclipse-chasers\u201d who spoke to AFP ahead of the August 12 event.<\/p>\n<p>However, with devastating fires still raging in some areas of Spain where the eclipse will be visible, the 51-year-old TV researcher may cancel her plans to travel from Sydney, Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very sad,\u201d Warning said. But as an Australian well-versed with the threat of bushfires, she said her heart went out to people in Spain mourning \u201clost houses and lost loved ones\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She is just one member of a small but growing community who plan holidays around seeing total solar eclipses, which take place every year or two.<\/p>\n<p>Witnessing these remarkable events often requires intricate and expensive travel plans. However the total eclipse in Spain \u2014 the first visible in mainland Europe this century \u2014 is an easier trip than some in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018Adrenaline rush\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Milligan, a solar physicist at Queen\u2019s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, has travelled for 12 different eclipses, to places as far-ranging as Siberia, Chile and the Faroe Islands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA total eclipse is not something you see, it\u2019s something you experience,\u201d he told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe temperature drops, the light and the shadows are all in the wrong place, the colours are muted, there\u2019s a 360 degree sunset, the animals go to sleep \u2014 these things you cannot convey to people through a picture or a video or a news article,\u201d Milligan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s that adrenaline rush of trying to experience all that within a few minutes that pushes us literally to go to the ends of the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then once the brief thrill is over, the chasers start planning for their next hit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very expensive, very odd addiction,\u201d Warning said with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Lucie Green\u00a0went all the way to Antarctica in 2021, only to be thwarted by that common enemy of eclipse chasers: clouds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got about a two-thirds success rate,\u201d said the solar physicist at University College London.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it works out. Warning described how the \u201cthe clouds parted\u201d at the last second in the Faroe Islands in 2015, allowing her to see an eclipse that people just hundreds of metres away missed.<\/p>\n<p>Milligan was one of those who saw only clouds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was distraught\u2026 not least because they told me I would have seen it if I\u2019d stayed in my hotel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Because they are travelling to the same place at the same time, members of this small community often meet up.<\/p>\n<p>For example, while driving in the extremely remote northwest Australia to see an eclipse in 2019, Green said she bumped into Milligan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0\u2018Breathtaking\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>For next week\u2019s eclipse, Jenny Winker, a 60-year-old retiree in St Paul, Minnesota, is travelling to northern Spain with nine other family members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019ve never seen a total eclipse, it is breathtaking,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>While watching smoke from wildfires in Canada drift over Minnesota, Winker said she has also been monitoring the Spanish fires.<\/p>\n<p>Green explained that because the eclipse will occur just before sunset, particles from the fires could create a more \u201chazy\u201d or \u201cfuzzy\u201d view.<\/p>\n<p>Some chasers are already planning for a total eclipse next year that will be the longest humans will be able to see until 2114.<\/p>\n<p>In Luxor, home to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, the totality \u2014 when the Moon fully covers the Sun \u2014 will last six minutes and 22 seconds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; 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