University of Michigan researchers are preparing cameras, weather balloons, radio antennas and other scientific instruments, as well as young citizen scientist collaborators, for this opportunity. The next total solar eclipse won't come to the U.S. for another 20 years.
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The April 8 total eclipse will reveal the sun s outer atmosphere as a tangle of light that outlines the moon s silhouette like a crown. This image inspired the
The April 8 total eclipse will reveal the sun s outer atmosphere as a tangle of light that outlines the moon s silhouette like a crown. This image inspired the
Space weather predictions are neither accurate nor timely, and that leaves astronauts as well as space probe and satellite operators without enough time to react to dangerous particles flung out by the sun, which can arrive in as little as 30 minutes