22 August 2017
Total eclipse wows viewers in the US
... two minutes of nighttime in the day. It was the first total solar eclipse visible in the continental United States in 38 years and the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in the US in nearly a century. Those outside the path of totality, were...
November 2026
Seeing Earth differently - The Dorothy Project and its search for the Overview Effect
... across the USA from Oregon to South Carolina tilted their heads skyward to observe the effects of a full solar eclipse on 21 August 2017, a young filmmaker in Montreal also watched with fascination. Inspired by the concept of the Overview Effect...
04 February 2018
In the Shadow of the Moon: the science, magic and mystery of solar eclipses
... across the Snake River in Idaho. The author is an astrophysicist and anthropologist, the “fortunate witness” of eight total solar eclipses which have taken him from the South Pacific to the Egypt-Libya border. Having been trained...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
... brighter than its surrounding corona in visible light, the only way to observe the corona is during a solar eclipse. The limitation of natural solar eclipses visible from the ground is that they occur every 18 months or so, and only during a short...
26 February 2018
Astronomy Photographer of the Year (Collection 5)
.... What was the overall winner of the 2016 competition? A series of images from the start to the end of a solar eclipse stacked together to form an artistic composition with the dark circle of the Moon in the centre and concentric...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... of the gravitational deflection of light that was first demonstrated by Sir Arthur Eddington in the famous 1919 solar eclipse expedition that provided the first observational confirmation of Einstein’s theory of gravity. The alignment needed to see...
