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Total eclipse, partial failure: Scientific expeditions don't always go as planned

  • Written by Barbara Ryden, Professor of Astronomy, The Ohio State University
imageHave telescopes, will travel: English astronomers await an 1871 eclipse in India. The Illustrated London News, 1872

For centuries, astronomers have realized that total solar eclipses offer a valuable scientific opportunity. During what’s called totality, the opaque moon completely hides the bright photosphere of the sun – its thin...

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