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What time does the solar eclipse start in the DC area? Here’s a guide to answer all your questions

By Emily Venezky

Space lovers across North American have been excitedly tracking and making plans for the total solar eclipse that will take place April 8. The “path of totality” for Monday’s total solar eclipse stretches from Mexico’s Pacific coast, crosses into Texas and 14 other U.S. states, and exits over Canada. It will last almost twice as long, with an even wider audience, than the total solar eclipse that stretched coast-to-coast in the U.S. in 2017. While D.C. isn’t in the eclipse’s path of totality, you still may get a glimpse of the solar wonder. Watch NASA’s livestream below.

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National Museum of the American Latino to be housed in historic Smithsonian building

By Neal Augenstein
The Smithsonian Institution has decided to put the National Museum of the American Latino into an existing, historic building, rather than constructing a new one. The Smithsonian Board of Regents on Monday designated the Arts and Industries Building, a 145-year-old redbrick Victorian structure located between the Smithsonian Castle and the Hirshhorn Museum, as the permanent site of the National Museum of the American Latino, which Congress authorized in 2020. In 2022, the Smithsonian narrowed its survey for permanent locations for the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women's History Museum to four locations near the National Mall on land owned by the National Park Service. The Arts and Industries Building, located at 900 Jefferson St. SW, was one of the four sites. New construction on National Park Service land would require congressional approval. However, since the Smithsonian already owns the Arts and Industries Building, the institution can place the National Museum of the American Latino in the existing building without additional legislation.
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