Light is electromagnetic radiation, but Einstein created the Photon so he could collect a Nobel prize; using the identical
photographs of a solar eclipse that are proof of Relativity.
It's the part of the Sun that is visible in
photographs of Solar Eclipses that show large loops of structure extending well beyond the Sun, like the image below.
Not exact matches
A team led by Miloslav Druckmüller at the Brno University
of Technology in the Czech Republic took multiple
photographs of several recent
solar eclipses, when the sun's atmosphere, or corona, was visible as a halo around the blacked - out sun.
When a
photograph of the 1919
solar eclipse proved that light could bend, as Einstein predicted, that fame only grew.
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.
The book includes
photographs, image material, graphics and texts that Wolfgang Tillmans made or assembled on the phenomenon
of solar eclipses.