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Eclipses Throughout Our Universe

Video    Out There    NYT    15 August 2017

Solar Eclipse 2017

On the 21st day of August, 2017,

the moon will slide between the Earth and the sun,

painting a swath of darkness across North America.

The Great American Solar Eclipse.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyx0HFtC8Qg

Much of the sun's corona becomes visible

as the moon passes between the sun and the earth

during a total solar eclipse,

seen above Varanasi, India,

Wednesday, July 22, 2009.

Credit: Saurabh Das

AP

Boston Globe > Big Picture

The longest solar eclipse of the century

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07
/the_longest_solar_eclipse_of_t.html - broken link

A partial solar eclipse is seen through clouds

in Hyderabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 22, 2009.

Photograph: AP Photo/Shakil Adil

Boston Globe > Big Picture

The longest solar eclipse of the century

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/
the_longest_solar_eclipse_of_t.html  - broken link

1 - An annular eclipse appears,

May 20, 2012, north of Odessa, Texas.

Photograph: Albert Cesare/Odessa American

2 - An annular eclipse appears,

May 20, 2012, north of Odessa, Texas.

Photograph: Albert Cesare/Odessa American

3 - Hikers watch an annular eclipse

from Papago Park in Phoenix, May 20, 2012.

Photograph: Michael Chow/The Arizona Republic

Boston Globe > Big Picture

Ring of Fire Eclipse: 2012        May 21, 2012

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/05/
ring_of_fire_eclipse_2012.html - broken link

solar eclipse        UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/science/
solar-eclipse

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2024/04/08/
1243386496/a-rare-solar-eclipse-darkened-skies-
and-dazzled-viewers-across-the-u-s

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/18/
543462652/california-prepares-for-an-eclipse-of-its-solar-power

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/16/
541132645/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-total-solar-eclipse

Eclipses Throughout Our Universe

Video Out    NYT    15 August 2017

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Wyx0HFtC8Qg 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/
science/eclipse-discoveries-science.html

https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000005343495/
solar-eclipse-2017.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2016/mar/09/
total-solar-eclipse-thousands-gather-across-asia-and-australia-in-pictures

http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/mar/15/
solar-eclipse-1999-in-pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2013/may/10/
solar-eclipse-australia-outback-video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2012/may/22/
solar-eclipse-from-space-video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2011/jan/04/
partial-solar-eclipse

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/
opinion/11pasachoff.html

total solar eclipse        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2016/mar/09/
total-solar-eclipse-thousands-gather-across-asia-and-australia-in-pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2012/nov/14/
solar-eclipse-australia-timelapse-video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/nov/13/
total-solar-eclipse-australia

total solar eclipse        USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2024/04/08/
1243386496/a-rare-solar-eclipse-darkened-skies-
and-dazzled-viewers-across-the-u-s

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/27/
546109041/eclipse-2017-one-nation-under-the-sun

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/21/
545083434/photos-the-day-the-eclipse-came-to-america

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/16/
541132645/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-total-solar-eclipse

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/11/
470079890/watch-shadow-of-the-moon-crosses-earth-during-solar-eclipse

hybrid solar eclipse

A hybrid eclipse is a type of solar eclipse

that looks either like an annular solar eclipse,

when the moon covers only the center of the sun,

or a total solar eclipse,

when the moon covers the sun in its entirety.

Such celestial events happen

about once every decade:

The last one was in 2013

and the next one isn't until 2031.

They occur when Earth is in the "sweet spot"

so the moon and the sun

are almost the exact same size in the sky,

said NASA solar expert Michael Kirk.

At some points,

the moon is a little closer

and blocks out the sun in a total eclipse.

But when the moon is a little farther away,

it lets some of the sun's light peek out

in an annular eclipse.

"It's a crazy phenomenon," Kirk said.

"You're actually watching the moon

get larger in the sky."

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/20
/1170986176/solar-eclipse-australia-indonesia

Boston Globe

Big Picture > Ring of Fire Eclipse: 2012        USA        May 21, 2012

A rare annular eclipse

- a ring of sunlight as the new moon,

passing between Earth and sun,

blocks most, but not all,

of the sun's disc.

It is striking to see.

Differing from a total solar eclipse,

the moon in an annular eclipse

appears too small

to cover the sun completely,

leaving a ring of fire effect

around the moon.

The eclipse cast its shallow path

crossing the West from west Texas to Oregon

then arcing across the northern Pacific Ocean

to Tokyo, Japan.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/05/
ring_of_fire_eclipse_2012.html  - broken link

22 July 2009 > The longest total solar eclipse

of the 21st century        UK / USA

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/22/
longest-total-solar-eclipse-21st-century

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/jul/21/
china-india

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/gallery/2009/jul/22/
asia-china

https://archive.nytimes.com/tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/
eclipse/ - Jan 15, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/22/
science/20090722-SOLAR_index.html

11 August 1999 > solar eclipse        UK

Britain is brought

to a standstill for almost an hour

as millions of people watched

the last eclipse of the millennium

https://www.theguardian.com/science/1999/aug/12/
eclipse.archive

Corpus of news articles

Space > Solar system > Sun / Earth >

Solar eclipse

June 30 1927

The eclipse watched from the sky

From The Guardian archive

June 30 1927

The Guardian

The sun was hidden in cloud when the aeroplane ascended from Chester Aerodrome. We had come from Croydon yesterday afternoon, in the big Imperial Airways 14-seater, and after a short night at Chester we were in the cabin again at half-past five.

We were as assorted a lot of earthians as Mr Wells could have selected for an air story — amateur astronomers, journalists, photographers, two ladies keen on flying, an artist, and a military man. Tired, one of the party slept through the eclipse.

Through smoked glass one watched the moon clearly shutting out the flame of day. It was only when the sun was a crescent that the marvel of what we were seeing began to grip the mind. Before that one only knew that it was a marvel, but now one's consciousness was pervaded by it.

Then there was nothing of the sun, only the wispy silver curls shorn from his locks. We were immediately in the valley of the shadow. It did not seem to me to rush up, but one was suddenly aware of it.

I glanced round the cabin. What did a human being look like in that resurrection pause? I could see heads silhouetted against the windows and could discern [an] old man's ashen face. But the face of the young man beside him was ashen too. And so we flew, a winged chariot of ghosts between earth and a goblin sun.

The earth had almost disappeared in greyness. I could not see any edge to the grey shadow that was there. The double engines roared outside and we were denied, of course, the silence that the earth owes to the terrific apparitions of the cosmos, but at the time one had forgotten the noise.

The sun crescent appeared now in the east, and our aeroplane, firing a salute from its exhaust as it dropped quickly to 2,000 feet, began its flight back to Chester. The sun in the quar ter-phase emerging had become quite strong and glimmered at the sea.

Some of the million watchers were thronged at Southport. We flew low along the sands to the cheering of great parties of school children, and so back to Aerodrome and down in the rain. And in the hangar there the men and women from three aeroplanes, forgetting their Englishness, at once began to talk eagerly together of the marvels they had seen, like the people in the New Testament.

What the Astronomers Say: The Astronomer Royal: A very clear and striking eclipse. Our observations went off very well indeed. Dr. Andrew Crommelin (Colwyn Bay): The most hopeless eclipse I have ever taken part in.

From The Guardian archive,
June 30 1927,
The eclipse watched from the sky,
G,
republished 30.6.2007,
p. 36,
http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2007/06/30/
pages/ber36.shtml

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