What have you done with your eclipse glasses? Please don’t throw them away—because many of the glasses are certified for safe use for up to three years. Which is good news for people, especially kids, in South America and Asia who might not be able to afford or otherwise acquire new eclipse glasses. Those two regions will experience a total solar eclipse in 2019. And a California nonprofit called Astronomers Without Borders wants your old glasses to share with schools and those kids. Click here to read more from the Scientific American.
Sue Van Leuven sent a note that she is “willing to collect the glasses and send them in when there is an address. People can put them in my Skybox #1503.”