News 9 meteorologist Robyn King spoke with local experts to find out why today's particular eclipse is so special.

News 9's Lisa Monahan and Justin Rudicel show viewers how to make a pinhole projector using a cereal box, a safety pin, a sheet of white paper, aluminum foil, scissors, tape and a pencil. 

How to make a pinhole projector using a cereal box.

Tourism officials in Missouri have forecasted hundreds of thousands of people will gather in the middle of the state to take in Monday's total solar eclipse. 

For the first time since 1979, the continental United States will get a glimpse of a total solar eclipse. Walter Cronkite was on the anchor desk of the CBS Evening News the last time the rare celestial event moved its way across the country.

A lot of stores across the metro are sold out of solar eclipse-viewing glasses, so the metropolitan library system is giving them out as a reward to kids for learning more about the eclipses.

NASA and the American Astronomical Society (AAS)  have created a list of reputable vendors for customers seeking to purchase solar eclipse glasses. 

Move away from a campfire, and as one might expect, the temperature will quickly drop. Move away from the sun's surface, and the temperature quickly and inexplicably climbs to around two million degrees.