Sentences with phrase «sun during the eclipse»

While there might appear to be a lack of sunlight, looking directly at the sun during an eclipse will damage your eyesight.

Bryans is leading a team that will point a spectrometer at the sun during the eclipse to detect that light.

Except for during the brief window of totality (when the sun's surface is completely blacked - out), you shouldn't look directly at the sun during an eclipse without wearing proper, eclipse - specific eyewear.

Since the sun is about 400 times farther away, the moon will be able to «cover» the sun during the eclipse.

While some people have been blinded by looking directly into the sun during an eclipse most animals typically behave as if it were nighttime and don't give the sky any extra attention.

Not exact matches

During the eclipse, we can expect the moon to completely (and partially, in the areas beyond the totality) obscure the sun's rays across the US, blocking the sunlight that powers the solar panels.

Natural gas turbines replaced solar power capacity during the August 21st solar eclipse, highlighting the carbon - light fossil fuel's emerging role as a gateway «green» energy in the coming decades, according to a report by Fortune released before the sun took its proverbial nap.

Wang Chhung, for example, cited a cyclic waxing and waning of the light of the sun and moon themselves - yang and yin - and dismisses as absurd the idea that the moon consumed the sun during a solar eclipse; for what then would consume the moon during a lunar eclipse?.

Shadows are formed during an eclipse of the sun.

On Monday, Aug. 21 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., guests are invited to join the Museum of Life and Science for a deeper look at the science behind the eclipse with hands - on activities exploring heliophysics, the study of the sun and a solarscope viewing party during the eclipse peak.

On a day when many are staring at the sun during the solar eclipse, Dr. Eric Verruto of Hudson Valley Eye Surgeons joins Medical Monday.

The moon won't cover the sun in upstate during Monday's solar eclipse, but it will block enough sunlight to cool things down a little.

They've practiced every motion they'll make during the eclipse: Check that the sun is in each telescope's field of view; remove the lens caps at just the right moment, to get as much time watching the corona as possible without frying the delicate instruments; and so on.

Of course, proving Einstein right required the careful measurement by Arthur Eddington and colleagues of starlight bending near the sun during a solar eclipse in 1919.

The sun won't be the only thing scrutinized during the eclipse.

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).

Observations during the total solar eclipse may explain why the sun's atmosphere is so organized despite arising from a tangled magnetic field.

November 3: African Hybrid Eclipse During this rare eclipse, crossing from Gabon to Somalia, the sun is totally obscured when viewed from some spots but appears as a ring around the moon elsEclipse During this rare eclipse, crossing from Gabon to Somalia, the sun is totally obscured when viewed from some spots but appears as a ring around the moon elseclipse, crossing from Gabon to Somalia, the sun is totally obscured when viewed from some spots but appears as a ring around the moon elsewhere.

This was first confirmed during a solar eclipse in 1919 by a team led by the British astronomer Arthur Eddington; the scientists observed that stars near the limb of the Sun were shifted in position by the Sun's gravity.

Instead, the sun stretches 0.5 ° across, so even during total solar eclipses, some of its light passes either above or below the moon, creating a less - dense shadow called the penumbra.

During an eclipse the corona is visible as a bright halo around the sun.

The project will give astronomers an unprecedented view of the outer layers of the sun's atmosphere — which aren't blocked by the moon — during the entire eclipse.

Stars behind the sun would appear in different positions with respect to each other during an eclipse than they would on an ordinary night when the sun is nowhere in sight.

For now, though, superstring theory lacks the sort of dramatic demonstration that propels radical theories into prominence, such as Einstein's famous precise prediction of how much starlight would be deflected when passing by the sun as measured during a solar eclipse.

And it's the largest moon relative to its planet in the solar system, exactly the right size to perfectly cover the sun in the sky during an eclipse — an amazing cosmic coincidence.

«During the eclipse proper, you take one - or two - second integrations of the sun, bang - bang - bang - bang - bang, and that's your data.

During the May 20 eclipse, the moon covered as much as 94 percent of the sun, leaving a narrow «ring of fire» in the sky.

During six minutes of a total solar eclipse on May 29, 1919, Eddington measured the positions of stars that appeared next to the blotted - out sun.

Viewing the Sun during partial and annular eclipses (and during total eclipses outside the brief period of totality) requires special eye protection, or indirect viewing methods.

It took three years for astronomers to test this theory by measuring, during an eclipse, how the sun shifted light from a star.

During a solar eclipse in 1919, astronomers showed that the sun's mass did indeed bend the path of starlight.

In the case of our sun, we can glimpse the corona, which reaches at least 100 million miles out into space, during solar eclipses.

A visible - light image of the Sun captured during the total eclipse by Southern Research's telescopes.

Black noted that during the eclipse the moon will align exactly with the sun's surface and enable observations of the entire corona, including regions that are rarely detectable.

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.

Scientists around the world were reconnecting after the horrors of World War I, and general relativity had recently received stunning experimental confirmation when astronomers observed the sun's gravity bending starlight during a solar eclipse.

Health officials» concern during an eclipse is that people will stare at the sun, particularly close to totality when the sun may look like a crescent.

Arthur Eddington observes the sun's mass bending light during an eclipse over the island of Principe — the gravitational lensing effect predicted by Einstein

And at the root of all this tangled physics is the place where the corona starts, right above the sun's surface — the faint ring made visible during an eclipse.

Pictured: The very faint, upper level of the sun's atmosphere, called the corona, becomes visible during a total solar eclipse.

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.

During next month's Great American Total Solar Eclipse, you may be tempted to take in the historic event by gazing directly at the sun, but you absolutely should not do this without the proper eye protection, experts say.

Mangel, who visited Tennessee for the Aug. 21 eclipse, said he and others experienced an unusual clarity of vision during the minutes when the moon shut out the sun's rays.

In 1919, astronomers photographed stars near the sun during a 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.

As the Moon completely covers the Sun and perfectly blocks its light during an eclipse, the typically faint corona is easily seen against the dark sky.

Many of the scientific questions researchers are after have to do with a big doughnut of space around the sun observable only during a total eclipse.

But as the moon passes in front of the sun during the Aug. 21 Great American Eclipse, scientists will be doing some serious work.

As Saturn will eclipse the sun from Cassini's point of view during that time, the spacecraft's vantage point in Saturn's shadow will make it easier to look at the planet's rings.

This instrument was specifically designed for photographing the Sun's corona (the outer layer), which up to that time had been successfully photographed only during solar eclipses.