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Space.com

The total solar eclipse that swept across North America in 2017 was a spectacle rarely witnessed in the U.S., and millions of Americans crammed themselves into the narrow band of totality where the silhouette of the moon perfectly blocks the sun’s disk …

Space.com

It has been over two decades since the discovery of dark energy. Scientists have therefore had more than 20 years to decode the secrets of this invisible substance that appears to be pulling the universe apart. Yet, they still know close to nothing …

The Washington Post

The Kemp team, like 34 others scattered across the eclipse’s path, will take rapid-fire images of the sun in polarized light. Scientists plan to stitch together the data to create an hour-long movie …

The New York Times

“As Biden would say, it’s a B.F.D.,” said Adam Riess, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. He shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with two other astronomers for the discovery of dark energy, …

BBC News

Awe-inspiring cosmological events can powerfully influence our psychology. The date is 28 May, 585 BC, in what is now present-day Anatolia in Turkey. The Medes, an ancient people from modern-day Iran, and the Lydians – a kingdom from the south of …

The Washington Post

The reduction in incoming sunlight has significant effects on the atmosphere that you can feel and see · The temperature drops · Clouds disappear · Relative humidity increases · Winds change · The upper atmosphere is disturbed · The bottom line.

CNN

In low light, bright reds appear darker, faded and sometimes almost black, while blues and greens tend to become more vibrant — and a total solar eclipse provides an ideal opportunity to observe this shift.

Space.com

In October 2023, a trio of sounding rockets traveled more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) into the ionosphere before returning safely back to the Earth’s surface. Now, they’re getting ready for their second flight.

The Washington Post

A total solar eclipse is the result of the moon passing between the sun and the Earth, blocking all sunlight in a particular path. Darkness will last for just a few moments, but a lot more …

NPR

A stunning celestial event is visible across the country Monday, when the moon crosses directly in front of the sun: a total solar eclipse. For those in the path of totality, there will be a few brief moments when the moon completely covers the sun and …