Visiting the set of Star Trek: Discovery on the
day of a total solar eclipse seems like a serendipitous meeting of geeky and nerdy interests.
They will climb to 15 kilometers in the stratosphere and fly in the path
of the total solar eclipse over Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee at 750 kilometers per hour.
On August 21, Des Jardins, an astrophysicist at Montana State University in Bozeman, will help broadcast the first livestream
of a total solar eclipse from the edge of space.
The rare
spectacle of a total solar eclipse has given scientists throughout history fleeting opportunities to delve into everything from the sun's chemistry to Einsteinian relativity to Earth's place in the solar system.
For anyone in the path of totality, there's also the chance to participate in the Eclipse MegaMovie project, the first crowdsourced image
archive of a total solar eclipse.
I have conducted experiments during a
series of total solar eclipses to address the question, and there has been much theoretical work in this area recently.
7 The beautiful
symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because — by pure chance — the sun is 400 times larger than the moon but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.
Aug. 24, 2017 — Vanderbilt University researchers joined a national NASA weather balloon project giving scientists and people around the world a
view of the total solar eclipse from the edge of space.
will help lead the crowd through the 90 minutes of eclipse phases through a series of demonstrations, Q&A with Dr. Amy Mainzer, songs from the series, a countdown to Eclipse Totality, and explanations of what to look, feel, and listen for as the
shadow of the total solar eclipse descends over Homestead.
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.
There is one exception to this rule — if you're in the
path of a total solar eclipse, you may look at the sun with your naked eyes during the brief time when the sun is in «totality,» meaning the sun's bright face is completely blocked by the moon.
While the naming is ardently awaited, Google is instead focusing more on the fact that the Android iteration is being launched on the day
of the total solar eclipse.