Not exact matches
This summer's
total solar eclipse revealed rare
views of the sun's corona, its outermost layers
of plasma millions
of degrees in temperature.
The March 20, 2015,
total solar eclipse over Svalbard gave Habbal's team a rare
view of the whole
solar atmosphere because the moon and the sun appear almost the same size in the sky.
When
viewed during a
total solar eclipse, the red rim
of the chromosphere is just visible to the naked eye.
COMING INTO
VIEW Total solar eclipses let scientists see what's happening in the corona, the site
of some
of the sun's most interesting physics.
Partial
solar eclipses are hazardous to
view because the eye's pupil is not adapted to the unusually high visual contrast: the pupil dilates according to the
total amount
of light in the field
of view, not by the brightest object in the field.