Sentences with phrase «corona during total solar eclipses»

We thank M.I. Pishkalo for providing us with the observed HCS tilts from image analysis of the solar corona during total solar eclipses.

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CROWNING MOMENT During a total solar eclipse in 2017, the moon will block the sun, allowing people to see the solar corona (as seen in this picture from a 1999 eclipse).

«They are associated with the legs of solar prominences — these are beautiful concentrations of cool plasma in the very hot solar corona that can easily be seen as pink structures during total solar eclipses,» adds Labrosse.

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.

The exhibition features images of close - ups of the Moon and its Henry Frères craters from the 1890s, the first photographs of the Sun from 1870 by Rutherfurd and from 1878 by Janssen, an image of the solar corona during a total eclipse proving the curvature of the light; catches of comets and shooting stars and, of course, the images of nebulae and galaxies taken between 1910 and 1960 by the observatories of Lick, Mont Wilson and Mont Palomar.