--- description: A total solar eclipse will cross the American sky on August 21, 2017. Here to explain it is TIME's Jeffrey Kluger, who is doing a Reddit AMA title: Ask All Your Eclipse Questions During a Reddit AMA With TIME's Jeffrey Kluger image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt500ab587623b85ec/6988d9a77cdbacee31d59982/solar-eclipse1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Science](/section/science/) ## Science Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Eclipse](/tag/eclipse/) ## Eclipse Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Ask All Your Solar Eclipse Questions During a Reddit AMA With TIME's Jeffrey Kluger by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 15, 2017 6:34 PM CUT  David Loh / EyeEm—Getty Images/EyeEm by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 15, 2017 6:34 PM CUT A much-anticipated [total solar eclipse](http://time.com/4750899/total-solar-eclipse/ "undefined") will cross the American sky from coast to coast on Aug. 21 in an event being dubbed the “Great American Eclipse” — and here to answer all your questions about the rare phenomenon is TIME editor-at-large Jeffrey Kluger. Kluger, who has covered space and science at TIME for more than 20 years, will answer questions about the [eclipse](http://time.com/4878968/total-solar-eclipse-2017-traffic/ "undefined"), space and science during a Reddit AMA on Thursday, Aug. 17 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. ET. He will take questions as [u/timemagazine](https://www.reddit.com/user/timemagazine "undefined") in the [r/space](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/ "undefined") subreddit. “The solar eclipse is phenomenon that will be equal parts science, culture and spirit,” Kluger says. The Reddit AMA will be your chance to ask about what causes a total [solar eclipse](http://time.com/4899457/amazon-refunds-eclipse-glasses/ "undefined"), how long it will last, how to see it, [what it will look like](http://time.com/4882923/total-solar-eclipse-map-places-view/ "undefined") from various points throughout the U.S. and anything else that makes you curious. Tune in at 12 p.m. Thursday [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/ "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4899660/solar-eclipse-reddit-ama-jeffrey-kluger/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4899660/solar-eclipse-reddit-ama-jeffrey-kluger/"},"headline":"Ask All Your Solar Eclipse Questions During a Reddit AMA With TIME's Jeffrey Kluger","datePublished":"2017-08-15T18:34:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:58:43.000Z","description":"Ask anything you'd like to know about the total solar eclipse","url":"https://time.com/4899660/solar-eclipse-reddit-ama-jeffrey-kluger/","keywords":["Eclipse","Space","onetime","space 2017"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt500ab587623b85ec/6988d9a77cdbacee31d59982/solar-eclipse1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt500ab587623b85ec/6988d9a77cdbacee31d59982/solar-eclipse1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Scenic View Of Solar Eclipse","caption":"Scenic View Of Solar Eclipse","creditText":"David Loh / EyeEm—Getty Images/EyeEm","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/eclipse/","name":"Eclipse"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4899660/solar-eclipse-reddit-ama-jeffrey-kluger/","name":"Ask All Your Solar Eclipse Questions During a Reddit AMA With TIME's Jeffrey Kluger"}}]}] ```