--- title: Ask About the Solar Eclipse During Jeff Kluger's Reddit AMA 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 canonical: https://time.com/4899660/solar-eclipse-reddit-ama-jeffrey-kluger/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-15T18:34:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:58:43.000Z article:section: Science og:title: Ask All Your Eclipse Questions During a Reddit AMA With TIME's Jeffrey Kluger og:description: Ask anything you'd like to know about the total solar eclipse og:url: https://time.com/4899660/solar-eclipse-reddit-ama-jeffrey-kluger/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt500ab587623b85ec/6988d9a77cdbacee31d59982/solar-eclipse1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2858 og:image:height: 1608 og:image:alt: Scenic View Of Solar Eclipse og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ask All Your Eclipse Questions During a Reddit AMA With TIME's Jeffrey Kluger twitter:description: Ask anything you'd like to know about the total solar eclipse twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt500ab587623b85ec/6988d9a77cdbacee31d59982/solar-eclipse1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ask All Your Solar Eclipse Questions During a Reddit AMA With TIME's Jeffrey Kluger > Sponsored content. 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Aug 15, 2017 6:34 PM UTC A much-anticipated [total solar eclipse](http://time.com/4750899/total-solar-eclipse/) 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/), 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) in the [r/space](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/) 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/), how long it will last, how to see it, [what it will look like](http://time.com/4882923/total-solar-eclipse-map-places-view/) from various points throughout the U.S. and anything else that makes you curious. 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