how to watch the spectacle in the US and UK

Weeks after a lunar eclipse gave us a “blood moon”, the next astronomical spectacle is on the horizon: a partial solar eclipse.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the spectacle:

At 10am GMT on Saturday, it will begin. A tiny bite will begin to be taken out of the sun.

Slowly, over the course of the next hour, the bite will get bigger and bigger as this phenomenon — the only partial solar eclipse visible in the UK this year — progresses.

With only a maximum of a third of the sun obscured, though, if you want to witness one of the great astronomical events of the year you will need some apparatus. And, according to Dr Robert Massey, from the