If you are on the path of totality for the April 8 total solar eclipse, you experience a brief period of darkness – totality – lasting a few seconds or minutes. This is the only safe time to avoid looking directly at the sun solar eclipse glasses. If you observe the sunDuring the totality of … Read more
If solar scientists aren’t already eager to observe the sun as it reaches solar maximum in 2024, a newly discovered gamma-ray puzzle will add to that desire. While examining 14 years of data from NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope, a team of researchers found that during the last solar maximum in 2013 and 2014, the Sun’s … Read more
On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse moved from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, casting a narrow corridor through 14 U.S. states under the moon’s shadow in the first coast-to-coast totality in 99 years. On that day, Oregon’s shadow moved across the U.S. toward South Carolina, moving roughly northwest to southeast. It’s … Read more
A dramatic image of the sun at ‘solar maximum’ will await eclipse hunters April 8, 2024, during the total solar eclipse in North America. Only those within a 200 km wide path of totality can glimpse the Sun’s corona – the warmer outer atmosphere – with their naked eyes during totality. Only during the exact … Read more