Solar eclipse 2017: The pictures you have to see

The singer Bonnie Tyler helped mark the moment aboard a cruise ship as it sailed through the path of totality.

 

She sang a shorter two-minute and 40 second version of her 1983 hit Total Eclipse of the Heart to match the longest duration of totality that was visible, near Carbondale, Illinois

Despite being decades old, the song cruised straight to the top of the iTunes charts.

Media captionBonnie Tyler performs her 1980s hit Total Eclipse of the Heart, to mark the total solar eclipse

A different style of celebration took place at the Symbiosis Oregon Eclipse Festival in the Ochoco National Forest.

Free spirits there raised their hands to the skies.

Thiscomposite image, made from seven frames, shows the International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second during a partial solar eclipse, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 near Banner, Wyoming.

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