The moon reaches the end of its path across the face of the sun as seen from Southern Illinois University Source: AAP
Sky-gazers in the United States have cheered and applauded as the sun briefly vanished behind the moon - a total solar eclipse that stretched right across North America for the first time in nearly a century.
Sky-gazers in the United States have cheered and applauded as the sun briefly vanished behind the moon - a total solar eclipse that stretched right across North America for the first time in nearly a century.
People converged in cities along the path of totality, a 113-kilometre wide path running through 14 US states, where the moon blocked out all light from the sun.
