Year's first partial solar eclipse occurs Tuesday
Early risers in Madrid, London and Paris take note.
Space Exploration
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News tagged with eclipses
Stellar eclipse gives glimpse of exoplanet
A group of astronomers led by an MIT professor has spotted an exoplanetary eclipse of a star only 40 light years away — right around the corner, astronomically speaking — revealing a "super-Earth."
Astronomy
Jul 19, 2011
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Why the new moon on February 18th is special
Did you hear the one about last month's 'supermoon?'
Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2015
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Total lunar eclipse next week, not visible in US
(AP) -- The year's first total eclipse of the moon will last an unusually long time, a rare celestial treat for a wide swath of the globe.
Space Exploration
Jun 11, 2011
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NASA looks to solar eclipse to help understand Earth's energy system
It was midafternoon, but it was dark in an area in Boulder, Colorado on Aug. 3, 1998. A thick cloud appeared overhead and dimmed the land below for more than 30 minutes. Well-calibrated radiometers showed that there were ...
Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2017
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Total solar eclipse casts spotlight on rural Oregon town
Just before sunrise, there's typically nothing atop Round Butte but the whistle of the wind and a panoramic view of Oregon's second-highest peak glowing pink in the faint light.
Space Exploration
Jun 23, 2017
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Precise Radio-Telescope Measurements Advance Frontier Gravitational Physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using a continent-wide array of radio telescopes have made an extremely precise measurement of the curvature of space caused by the Sun's gravity, and their technique promises a major contribution ...
General Physics
Sep 1, 2009
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Longest Solar Eclipse of the 21st Century
One one-thousand, 2 one-thousand, 3 one-thousand, 4 one-thousand... Continue counting and don't stop until you reach 399 one-thousand.
Space Exploration
Jul 21, 2009
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Do your homework to prep for the 2023 and 2024 eclipses
This year and next, Americans will have the extraordinary opportunity to witness two solar eclipses as both will be visible throughout the continental U.S. On Oct. 14, 2023, the moon will obscure all but a small annulus of ...
Astronomy
May 3, 2023
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Curiosity captured two solar eclipses on Mars
When NASA's Curiosity Mars rover landed in 2012, it brought along eclipse glasses. The solar filters on its Mast Camera (Mastcam) allow it to stare directly at the Sun. Over the past few weeks, Curiosity has been putting ...
Space Exploration
Apr 4, 2019
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