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One of the ways that scientists study solar wind—charged particles streaming from the sun’s surface—is by observing the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona. But because the sun is so blindingly ...

There’s no denying that there’s something truly mesmerising about a total solar eclipse. So much so that in the 90s, eclipses were hyped in their run-up, with kids all over the world scrambling to ...

A pair of spacecraft just launched to create hundreds of artificial solar eclipses in orbit. The European Space Agency mission, called Proba-3, will allow scientists “to see an eclipse on demand,” as ...