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Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017. A total solar eclipse will take place on Monday, August 21, 2017. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.
2017 (MMXVII) will be a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (dominical letter A), the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium, the 17th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade. August 21 â A total solar eclipse will take place. 2  This will be the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century for the United States, and the first visible in the continental U.S. since February 26, 1979.