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Solar eclipses as an astrophysical laboratory

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  • Jay M. Pasachoff

    (Williams College — Hopkins Observatory, 33 Lab Campus Drive, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267, USA
    California Institute of Technology 150-21, Pasadena, California 91125, USA)

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Ring around the Moon: a new generation of solar eclipse research Astronomers no longer have to wait for a total solar eclipse before they can make meaningful observations of the Sun's corona. Earth- and satellite-based coronagraphs make such observations routine. But as Jay Pasachoff explains in a Review (one of a series commissioned for the International Year of Astronomy, collected on http://tinyurl.com/prhcqy ), a new generation of eclipse studies is linking solar observations from satellites with ground-based observations in spatial, time and spectral-resolution domains that are inaccessible from space. Eventually, as space-based solar telescopes proliferate, they may take over completely from Earth-bound observation. But for the next 600 million years or so — until the Moon's distance from the Sun increases such that its disk becomes too small to block out the sunlight — the solar eclipse will remain one of the best shows on Earth.

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  • Jay M. Pasachoff, 2009. "Solar eclipses as an astrophysical laboratory," Nature, Nature, vol. 459(7248), pages 789-795, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:459:y:2009:i:7248:d:10.1038_nature07987
    DOI: 10.1038/nature07987
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