A diagonal string of bright white suns descends from the upper left of a deep blue twilight sky, shrinking into thin orange crescents and ending in a dark disk ringed by fire just above the horizon. A wedge of darker sky fans upward from that point. Below, dark trees stretch to the horizon, and in the foreground stands a ruined stone enclosure with a large T-shaped stone monument.

Josh Dury, taken from Menorca, Spain

The Aug. 12, 2026, total solar eclipse sets over Talatí de Dalt, a late Bronze Age settlement on the Spanish island of Menorca. The Sun’s partial phases march down to the horizon, where totality lasted about 73 seconds — the site’s first total eclipse since 1539. The photographer composited frames shot with a Sony mirrorless camera and a 35mm lens; the foreground is a 1/30-second exposure at f/2 and ISO 160.