Sentences with phrase «atmosphere of the total solar eclipse»

The final sequences remind us of the end - of - days atmosphere of the total solar eclipse of August 1999 and the millennial fear of mass technological failure that was predicted as we counted down to midnight on the last day of December.

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The March 20, 2015, total solar eclipse over Svalbard gave Habbal's team a rare view of the whole solar atmosphere because the moon and the sun appear almost the same size in the sky.
The vanishingly thin atmosphere of the sun — the wispy stuff that can be glimpsed faintly during total solar eclipses — simmers at 1 million˚C, 200 times hotter than the «fire» beneath it.
Pictured: The very faint, upper level of the sun's atmosphere, called the corona, becomes visible during a total solar eclipse.
In astronomy, a corona is the luminous plasma «atmosphere» of the Sun or other celestial body, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse, but also observable in a coronagraph.
In an Earth - like atmosphere, the light of the other star would be appreciably scattered, causing the sky to be perceptibly blue though darker than during daytime, like during twilight or total solar eclipse.
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