The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Start of Spring (Chinese: 立春), the first solar term of the year, begins this year on Feb 4 and ends on Feb 18.

The moon's shadow ... total solar eclipse for North America. Because it occurs close to the spring equinox, it will be also a great opportunity to explore Alaska during peak northern lights ...

As spring breaks ... That will make it a great time to see zodiacal light—sunlight reflecting off cosmic dust left in the solar system. You’ll need to be somewhere very dark in the northern ...

Viewers in North and South America, Europe, East Asia, Australia and New Zealand will see the moon enter Earth’s shadow ... solar eclipse—when the moon perfectly blocks all of the sun's light ...