Can't see the solar eclipse? Tune in online or on TV
Ronald Dantowitz has been looking forward to Monday's solar eclipse for nearly 40 years.
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NASA research plane 'kicking off the show' during total eclipse
A NASA research plane, with the agency's science director onboard, will fly out of Boeing Field in Seattle on Aug. 21, to capture the first video of the total solar eclipse as it sweeps ashore at the Oregon coast.
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Partial eclipse of the sun visible across UK
If the weather is good, viewers across the UK will be treated to a partial solar eclipse on 21 August 2017, just before sunset. In a partial eclipse, a small bite out of the Sun can be seen at the mid-eclipse point, as it ...
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Tyson's solar eclipse tip: Don't video it, experience it
Prominent astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a suggestion for anyone with a view of next week's solar eclipse: Put down your smartphone and take in the phenomenon yourself.
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Studying the Sun's atmosphere with the total solar eclipse of 2017
A total solar eclipse happens somewhere on Earth about once every 18 months. But because Earth's surface is mostly ocean, most eclipses are visible over land for only a short time, if at all. The total solar eclipse of Aug. ...
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Aug 14, 2017
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Eclipse of reason—why do people disbelieve scientists?
If you've been paying attention, you know that on Aug. 21, we're in for a special cosmic treat: the Great American Eclipse of 2017.
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Aug 14, 2017
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Image: A partial solar eclipse seen from space
Thanks to a quirk of our cosmos, the moon's average distance from Earth is just right for it to appear as the same size in the sky as the significantly larger sun. Once in a while the moon slides directly between Earth and ...
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Aug 14, 2017
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More than spectacle: Eclipses create science and so can you
The sun is about to spill some of its secrets, maybe even reveal a few hidden truths of the cosmos. And you can get in on the act next week if you are in the right place for the best solar eclipse in the U.S. in nearly a ...
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Aug 14, 2017
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Those maps of eclipse's path? 'Wrong,' experts say—off by up to a half-mile at edge
Anyone who has been using online maps to decide where they intend to view the historic Aug. 21 total eclipse of the sun may want to take another look.
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Aug 11, 2017
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An NJIT researcher throws a global ham radio 'party' to study the eclipse
When a solar eclipse plunges the country into darkness Aug. 21, Nathaniel Frissell will be stationed directly along the shadow's path, leading one of the largest ionospheric experiments in the history of space science from ...
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