Sentences with phrase «total eclipse of the sun»

The only total eclipse of the sun in 2008 will be visible on August 1 over a narrow but long swath of land, beginning in Canada and ending in China after traversing northern Greenland, the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean, Siberia and western Mongolia.

It is called the chromosphere from the Greek root chroma, meaning color, because the chromosphere is visible as a colored flash at the beginning and end of total eclipses of the Sun.

IN THE SHADOW Over the next two decades, more than a dozen total eclipses of the sun will take place around the world.

The next total eclipse of the sun will darken a narrow path stretching across the United States next 21 August, give or take a millisecond.

Of the 65 moons in the solar system, ours is the only one that produces total eclipses of the sun.

And much depends on what happened on a day when there was a six - minute total eclipse of the sun (King is big on eclipses), and how the drunken dad (David Strathairn) ended up down that well.

This is the First Total Solar Eclipse in USA Since 1979 This is the first total eclipse of the Sun visible from the contiguous United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) since February 26, 1979.

Over the next two decades, more than a dozen total eclipses of the sun will take place around the world.

He calmly snipped the cord, then tested the limits of human endurance by watching the exit of the placenta, a Technicolor extravaganza that should be viewed with all the precautions of a total eclipse of the sun — polarized glasses, mirrors, cardboard boxes, air - sickness bags, the works.

Millions of people will know something is wrong on August 21, 2017, when a total eclipse of the sun sweeps across the country, the first to grace the continental United States since 1979 (and the first to go coast - to - coast since 1918).

A total eclipse of the sun is, for those who witness it, something like a religious experience.

On August 18, 1868, French astronomer Jules Janssen witnessed a total eclipse of the sun in Guntur, India, and recorded the colors in the spectrum of solar prominences.

«This is the closest to a total eclipse of the sun that you can have from Mars.»

Since then, Espenak, nicknamed «Mr. Eclipse,» has been to every continent, including Antarctica, for a total eclipse of the sun.

TravelQuest invites you to join us in the summer of 2019 for a once - in - a-lifetime South American odyssey with a dramatic focal point: the total eclipse of the Sun on July 2.

Here is the center of the galaxy with the Milky Way so distinct it looks like a gossamer ribbon weaving its way past the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the Southern Cross and in 2019 the total eclipse of the Sun.

It was during one of these expeditions that the American Albert William Stevens used an infrared filter in 1932 to photograph a total eclipse of the Sun from an airplane at an altitude of 8,200 metres.

From the presidential inauguration to the total eclipse of the sun, this year has been one of fast - paced news cycles and memorable moments.

Scientists and sky watchers are converging on the northeast coast of Australia, near the Great Barrier Reef, for a total eclipse of the sun.

This past summer, for the first time in 99 years, a total eclipse of the sun swept coast to coast across the United States.

Mitsubishi will be holding a live event in just a few days now, on the day of the eclipse, to display two events: the total eclipse of the sun and what it is calling the «dawn of the Eclipse Cross.»

When Gordon wanted to see a total eclipse of the sun, we went to Turkey.

The 16 mm anamorphic film was shot in Cornwall, England, during last year's total eclipse of the sun.

24 January: A total eclipse of the sun is visible from the northern part of Manhattan.

The resulting photos have a few bright spots and lines, but most of the scene is in a murky, total eclipse of the sun, darkness.

The total eclipse of the sun as experienced by cows on a dairy farm in Cornwall is the subject of «Banewl,» a film by British conceptual artist Tacita Dean that is the 189th installment in the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum's MATRIX program.

«A total eclipse of the Sun is simply the most beautiful, stunning and awe - inspiring astronomical event you can see with the naked eye.»