ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 7月7日 01時40分

On August 21, nearly 3 weeks before thousands of football fans are expected to gather at Southern Illinois University’s Saluki Stadium in Carbondale, Illinois, another group of fans will fill the stands. But all eyes will be on the sky, not the field. Carbondale will be among the best places to witness the Great American Eclipse, the first total solar eclipse to whisk across the contiguous U.S. since 1918. Bob Baer, a staff member at the university’s physics department, learned of the town’s cosmic destiny 3 years ago: The city is near what @NASA calls “the point of greatest duration.” Carbondale will experience “totality” — when the moon completely overshadows the sun — for longer than almost anywhere else: 2 minutes 38 seconds. Bob — who was photographed here by @the_chris_buck — has played a central role in preparing the university for its moment under no sun. “My main pitch was, ‘This isn’t a choice,’” he said. “We’ve got a dot on a map and a crossroads on a map, so everybody’s looking at us.” Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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