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.
Not exact matches
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.