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Why This Recent Total Solar Eclipse Was the First of Its Kind
The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—only reveals itself during total solar eclipses, which happen about every 18 months on ...
How 2 European satellites created the first artificial solar eclipse
A pair of European satellites, named Occulter and Coronagraph, have created an artificial total solar eclipse in space by ...
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First artificial eclipse in orbit delivers unprecedented glimpse of Sun’s corona
In a dazzling first, two European spacecraft —flying in millimeter-perfect formation — have created an artificial solar eclipse in space, capturing the clearest images of the Sun’s elusive corona yet.
Images reveal incredible findings of scientists' £154,000,000 effort to create man-made eclipse
The European Space Agency have shared their findings after using two satellites to create a man-made eclipse in space.
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Solar Eclipses On Command? That's Now A Reality
The spacecraft on the Sun-side is the Occulter, designed to block the solar disk for the Earth-side craft: the Coronagraph.