2020 Solar Eclipse Track

NASA will provide live coverage on Monday, Dec. 14, of a solar eclipse that will pass over South America, treating parts of Chile and Argentina to views of a total eclipse of the Sun.

A Spanish-language program will air on NASA Television and the public channel on the agency’s website.

A separate livestream of the eclipse without narration …

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The first images from ESA’s Solar Orbiter are already exceeding expectations and revealing interesting new phenomena on the Sun.

This animation combines a series of views captured with several remote-sensing instruments on Solar Orbiter between 30 May and 21 June 2020, when the spacecraft was roughly halfway between the Earth and the Sun – closer to the Sun than any …

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Total Solar Eclipse

General programming will be broadcast until official Eclipse Programming begins at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT, 5pm GMT) with a preview show hosted from Charleston, South Carolina.

The main show begins at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT, 6pm GMT) and will cover the path of totality the eclipse will take across the United States, from Oregon to South Carolina. …

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Watch the Solar Eclipse Online

General information about the eclipse will be broadcast until official Eclipse Programming begins at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT, 5pm GMT) with a preview show hosted from Charleston, South Carolina.

The main show begins at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT, 6pm GMT) and will cover the path of totality the eclipse will take across the United States, from Oregon …

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Today’s Total Solar Eclipse is one of the shorter ones, lasting 2 minutes and 40 seconds.

If you’re in the USA, then 12 states lie along the path of Totality.

At 10:15 am Pacific Daylight Time (1:15 PM EST, 6:15 GMT), the Great American Eclipse will begin. The first total solar eclipse in history unique to the United States, it …

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USA 2017 Solr Eclipse Map

This Monday, Aug. 21, every state in the U.S. will have a chance to see one of the sky’s most captivating shows, a solar eclipse. Some, in what’s called the path of totality, will even get to see a total solar eclipse, where the Moon completely covers the disk of the sun.

It marks the first time in 38 years …

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The Sun, 21 August 2017

While observers in North America will enjoy views of a total solar eclipse later today as the Moon slips between Earth and the Sun, it’s business as usual for our Proba-2 and SOHO satellites.

Proba-2 is expected to capture a series of partial eclipses, while SOHO will provide context images of the Sun and its extended atmosphere, or corona. The …

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A partial solar eclipse seen from space

Thanks to a quirk of our cosmos, the Moon’s average distance from Earth is just right for it to appear as the same size in the sky as the significantly larger Sun. Once in a while the Moon slides directly between Earth and the Sun such that it appears to cover our star completely, temporarily blocking out its light and …

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The Sun

It may look like a star, it may be called a star, but it does not yet generate energy like a normal star. This is because this star is still being formed.

It offers a fascinating glimpse into our own past because our Sun began its life as such a ‘T Tauri’ star some 4.6 billion years ago.

Located 1,800 …

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The Sun

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has been watching the Sun for almost 20 years. In that time it has seen solar activity ramp up and die down repeatedly. Its Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope has taken images of the resulting waxing and waning of the Sun’s corona – its atmosphere – that are impossible to record from the ground.

Our …

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