NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for August 9, 2026, featured a 2012 photograph by Steven Gilbert of a Sun partially eclipsed by the Moon, as seen above Earthlings contemplating the eclipse from Glen Canyon National Recreation Area near Page, Arizona. Park rangers and astronomers spoke to interested gatherers about the event. A group of sunspots is faintly visible on the Sun's disk just below and to the right of the Moon's dark disk.

In the entry, NASA said a new solar eclipse would occur that week, offering people in northeastern North America, Europe and northwestern Africa a chance to see a partially eclipsed Sun. A thin strip of Earth from Greenland to Portugal would additionally experience a total solar eclipse. The post described as an open question whether any meteors from the peaking Perseids would be visible during totality.