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NASA Jets Will Extend Eclipse By Chasing Moon's Shadow
If you're lucky enough to be in the path of totality for the Aug. 21 solar eclipse over North America, you will get at best about 2 ½ minutes to view "totality" – when the moon almost completely covers the disc of the Sun. But a team of NASA-funded scientists have figured out a way to get a much longer look. For them, totality will last three times as long as for the rest of us — more than 7 minutes. They plan to use the extra time to produce detailed observations of the Sun's corona and temperatures on Mercury.
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A Visual Guide to Solar Eclipses Throughout History
Ancient monuments, clay tablets, paintings, and photographs reveal the power that solar eclipses have had on the imaginations of prehistoric and modern civilizations. By Jen Viegas.
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Your guide to August’s solar eclipse
Totality, traffic, telescopes: How ready are you for the event of the century? By Paige Blankenbuehler. (July 7, 2017)
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10 Solar Eclipses That Changed Science
Although they were once feared as an evil omen, solar eclipses have helped to shape human history.
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The Great American Total Solar Eclipse Is Coming 2 Years from Today (August 21, 2017)
North Americans will get an opportunity to observe nature's greatest sky show: a total solar eclipse that will cross the entire continent.
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Moon Data Provides More Accurate 2017 Eclipse Path
Thanks to LRO and NASA Earth topography data, we have the most accurate maps of the path of totality for any eclipse to date.
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The Great American Eclipse is a year out, but viewing spots are already being snapped up
The event is going to be seriously weird, with a shadow tracing a narrow 13,840-km (8,600-mile) line from coast to coast, turning day into night for all those in its path. And that path is getting harder and harder to stand in, with people already snapping up hotel rooms in the shadow line.
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Chasing today's solar eclipse over the Pacific
We've sent anchor Morgan Chesky and photographer Doug Pigsley on a special Alaska Airlines flight that has adjusted its typical flight path from Anchorage to Honolulu to put the plane right in the prime spot over the Pacific Ocean to see this somewhat rare event.
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'Breathtaking' solar eclipse witnessed by millions
Millions of people in the UK and northern Europe have glimpsed the best solar eclipse in years. A great swathe of the Earth's surface was plunged into darkness as the Moon came between us and the Sun. From an aeroplane above the Faroe Islands, a BBC camera crew captured startling footage of the event reaching totality at 09:41 GMT. The deep shadow formed first in the North Atlantic and then swept up into the Arctic, ending at the North Pole.
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