Spain is preparing for the “solar eclipse”. The government has appointed a special commission

The government in Spain adopted at the Tuesday meeting a request to create a special inter -ministerial commission, which is to “guarantee safety” during total and partial solar eclipses, which will take place in 2026, 2027 and 2028.

The coordination of works is to cover as many as 14 ministries – according to a message published on Tuesday by the Spanish Ministry of Science. The committee's tasks will include “Guaranteeing public security during eclipse”, In this expected movement of hundreds of thousands of people to places from which astronomical phenomena will be best visible.

In subsequent years, in Spain, “eclipse trio”, or two total solar eclipses (August 12, 2026 and August 2, 2027) and a partial eclipse (January 26, 2028) will be observed. The Ministry of Science describes this as “an extraordinary astronomical phenomenon” that will attract the interest of society, tourists and the scientific world.

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“From 1905, the Iberian Peninsula has not seen a complete solar eclipse, and Spain will in this case the only inhabited territory where they can be observed,” emphasized the Ministry of Science, writing about next year's total eclipse.

In Poland, the complete solar eclipses in 2026 and 2027 will be visible only as partial eclipses.

From Madrid Marcin Furdyna (PAP)

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