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Eclipse
Corona, visibility during a total solar eclipse
Ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun’s annual motion
Transit, passage of one heavenly body over the disk of another
overview
ancient prediction of eclipses
ancient understandings of eclipses
astronomers and other eclipse experts
Baily’s Beads
description of an eclipse
discoveries made during eclipses
eclipsing binary star systems
effect on weather patterns
Einstein and the general theory of relativity
observations of Sun’s corona
occultation
pictures of eclipses
time measurement and historical events
tips for safe observation
types of eclipses
use by Aristotle to show that Earth is round
Sun
Sun, closest star to Earth. The Sun is a huge mass of hot, glowing gas. The strong gravitational pull of the Sun holds Earth and the other planets in...
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