At left, visitors to Liberty Science Center during the total solar eclipse in August 2017. Right: the eclipse that year as seen behind the Statue of Liberty.LSC; Noam Galai | WireImage
When the total solar eclipse comes to Jersey City, the moon will not completely obscure the sun, but we’ll be close enough.
As a NASA projection shows, depending up on the zip code you plug in, as much as 91% of the of the sun will be covered by 3:25 p.m. on April 8, when the luminous, life-sustaining star will look like a thin sliver of the moon.
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