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a total solar
eclipse it's a rare and astonishing
natural
phenomenon seeing a total solar eclipse
is like w you know you just never forget
it solar eclipses have filled people
with Wonder since the earliest
times connects us with the past our
predecessors they observe the same thing
we see today whenever we look at an
eclipse do you feel a connection I am a
part of the universe I'm a part of the
solar system I'm a part of this
Celestial
event can scientists seize these
Precious Moments Of Darkness to explore
a region of the sun normally
invisible its outer atmosphere the solar
Corona the solar Corona is one of the
great key holes to peer into to truly
understand the behavior of the sun
behaviors like violent eruptions from
the corona can cause huge solar
storms the largest solar storms could
really
destabilize most of the world's
technology plunging cities Into
Darkness with the help of
eclipses can researchers decode these
dangerous blasts and one day learn to
predict them
it's completely extraordinary that
nature gives us this opportunity to turn
off the lights while Millions will enjoy
the spectacle scientists are among the
most Avid Eclipse Chasers studying the
sun on the
ground in the air and touching the
corona
itself their goal to better understand
our most important Celestial
neighbor Great American
Eclipse right now on
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it's one of Nature's greatest
spectacles the total solar eclipse is
like the universe just walked up to your
door and said hey here I am I'm Dynamic
and I'm doing
stuff and on April 8th
2024 everybody in the lower 48 states
can EXP experience at least a partial
solar
eclipse weather
permitting for the
31.5 million people who live in the path
of
totality the disc of the sun will
completely
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disappear it's very emotional the world
stops for a moment and you are
surrounded by a completely different
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Universe a total solar eclipse only
happens because of an astonishing
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coincidence the Earth Moon and Sun must
perfectly align so the moon blocks the
Sun's
light the diameter of the Moon is around
400 times smaller than that of the
Sun but the moon also just so happens to
be roughly 400 times closer to the Earth
so it appears the same size in the sky
as the
sun when it passes in front of the sun
it blocks the Sun's light casting a
shadow on the earth that plunges es
everywhere it passes into
darkness that experience is surreal it
is not like any other experience that a
human being can have at 11:07 a.m. local
time on Monday April 8th the darkest
part of the Moon Shadow hits Mexico's
Pacific Coast traveling at more than
1500 mph the shadow is over 100 miles
wide wide passing over Dallas at 1:40
p.m. through Arkansas and
Illinois over Indianapolis at 3:6
p.m. and buffalo at 3:18 p.m. local time
this Shadow will exit Continental North
America at 438 p.m. after touching 15 US
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states it's an completely extraordinary
coincidence that we get the angles just
right to make this work if we were
anywhere else in the solar system we
would not have this perfect
alignment and if the moon were any
closer to Earth or any larger it would
completely obscure the object the
scientists are trying to
study the sun's outer
atmosphere it's called
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but scientists on the ground only get a
chance to study the corona if they're in
the right
spot and if the weather
cooperates the bane of every Eclipse
Chaser is clouds and other weather that
keep them from seeing
totality statistically Mexico should
have the clearest Skies along the path
of totality during
April with Texas a runner
up but most places north of Missouri
have less than 50% chance of clear
skies standing on the center line of the
Moon Shadow gives you the most time to
view the
corona the last total solar eclipse to
pass across the US was in
2017 it was an unforgettable spectacle
witnessed by an estimated 215 million
people
but the maximum duration of totality was
just 2 minutes and 42
seconds in
2024 the maximum duration is almost
twice as long lasting 4 minutes and 28
seconds during the eclipse that gives
you a really unique opportunity to
suddenly see this Corona and to study it
scientifically the corona is less bright
quite a lot less bright than the main
part of the Sun so normally when you
observe the sun you're not able to see
that
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Corona the sun is so bright that until
the moon completely covers it the only
way to view it safely is to use
certified solar filters or Eclipse
viewing
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glasses it's really exciting to watch
but there is this real danger of
blinding yourself or causing significant
eye
damage you've got to get these special
eclipse glasses these special eyewear
that block out
99.999% of the sunlight and virtually
all of the UV light that would really
damage your
eyes the human eye has a
lens it helps focus light onto the
retina which contains over 100 million
light sensitive receptor
cells these cells translate light into
electrical signals that the brain can
read as
images staring directly at the Sun the
focused beam from the lens becomes so
intense it can easily burn the cells in
the
retina leaving a permanent blind
spot eclipse glasses will prevent this
but the magnifying effect of telescopes
and binoculars can still destroy your
eye so you see what that light did to
these viewing glasses it would do the
same thing to your eye you'd blind
yourself
instantly even if you're wearing
certified solar viewing glasses you
cannot look through a telescope with
them unless there is a telescopic solar
filter on the telescope itself
during totality that total darkness you
can actually take off your solar glasses
and stare at the Sun for just a brief
moment and appreciate that Darkness with
that coronal light around it which is
one of these amazing moments that you
can only experience if you're actually
witnessing total solar
eclipse but on April 8th what about the
people who are not lucky enough to live
with thin or travel to the path of
totality what can they
see the good news is that nearly
everyone in the US lower 48 has a chance
to experience at least a partial
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eclipse you see roughly 10% more of the
sun with every 200 mil of distance from
the path of
totality for example
in Atlanta Georgia the moon covers just
over 80% of the sun's disc in Los
Angeles
California around
50% while in Portland Oregon just over
20% of the sun is
blocked imagine looking up at the sky
with proper eye protection and noticing
that part of the sun has gone missing
that is the joy and wonder of a partial
solar eclipse so even if you don't
experience total darkness you were still
experiencing this wondrous
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phenomenon but only the darkness of a
total eclipse allows us to see the sun's
outer
atmosphere the
corona the Corona's elusive pearly white
cloud is made from a state of matter
rarely found on Earth called
plasma
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sometimes we call plasma the fourth
state of matter there are many different
states of matter but the ones we're
custom to here on Earth are four solids
liquids gases and
plasmas if you heat a gas to a high
enough
temperature some of the electrons in its
atoms fly
off leaving positively charged
ions this super hot mixture of ions and
electrons is known as a plasma
nuclei to fuse
together creating helium and releasing
vast amounts of energy as
photons this nuclear fusion heats the
core to 27 million de
F from here the photons pass through the
dense inner layer of the
Sun the temperature of the plasma
gradually drops
as the photons reach the sun's visible
surface known as the
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Photosphere here rising and sinking
plasma forms a seething surface of light
and dark
areas around the Photosphere is the
Corona the sun's outer atmosphere of
extremely diffuse plasma extending far
into
space
the corona is called the corona because
it sort of has this Crown like shape and
Corona in Latin is the word for
Crown it's thin and wispy and hence very
dim compared to the actual surface of
the Sun so we need that surface to be
blocked in order to see the
corona but what more could science
discover if we could get
closer
in 2018 NASA launches a pioneering space
probe to do exactly
that it's called The Parker solar Probe
on board are instruments that will
change our understanding of the Sun and
study its extreme
Behavior Parker solar probe was
conceived in
1958 there was a big long wait because
our technology was trying to catch up
with our dreams
go Delta go
PSP r68 look good in the full dress
mode solar flares are large magnetic
eruptions which can cause particles to
come streaming towards the Earth we also
have coronal mass ejections which are
billions of tons of material equivalent
to 80 million school buses racing
towards us at millions of miles an hour
that can do things like interfere with
satellites or affect our power
grid but even when the sun is quiet a
lower intensity steady outflow of
charged solar particles forms what's
called solar
wind it has been a mystery as to why
that wind is accelerating constantly off
the solar
surface Parker solar probe is named for
Eugene Parker a very dear man who had a
theory about the origins of the solar
wind that paper laid the groundwork for
the study of the solar wind that we know
today Parker is the fastest human-made
object it'll reach speeds of 430,000
mph a 4 and 1/2 in thick heat shield
made from a carbon composite painted
with heat reflecting ceramic paint
protects the
probe the top heat shield is going to
experience 1300° C and in the back it's
going to be room temperature it's
important to have this huge temperature
difference those instruments in the back
need to operate in about room
temperature since 2018 the probe's
elongated orbit takes it progressively
closer Clos and closer to the
Sun and in December 2021 the team
announces a major
breakthrough Parker solar probe had
touched the
sun this is definitely a
first this is the Monumental achievement
of being able to say that we were inside
the atmosphere of a
star
some scientists assumed the sun's
atmosphere was smooth like a
ball this is the boundary where the
solar wind escapes the Sun's gravity and
magnetic
pull and Spills out into
space but Parker's data shows it is
undulating complex and
dynamic as the probe barrels through the
sun's atmosphere it runs into huge
magnetic structures rising from the
surface
called coronal pseudo
streamers these could be responsible for
the rugged edge of the sun's
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atmosphere the particles of the solar
wind are a
plasma we are just beginning to learn
more and more about how they're thrown
out of the
sun knowing the shape of that surface is
really important to understand the
formation and acceleration of the
solarwind towards
us
the strength of the solar wind depends
on the behavior of the sun's magnetic
field which varies according to an
11-year cycle called the solar
cycle and according to that pattern the
expected activity in
2024 could make the April Eclipse
particularly interesting for
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scientists in 2017 the sun was at a
minimum in 2024 the difference is going
to be that the sun will be very active
it will be at a maximum and those
maximums are where you get the
show there could be a lot of activity
going
on my dream is that there is a actually
a coronal mass ejection or flare going
off that we can see that would be
exciting solar eclipses have captivated
communities in North America for
centuries 3 hours Northwest of what is
now
Albuquerque this Canyon was once home to
the
Chans a Pueblo Native American people
who farmed the land here until the 13th
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century John Jihadi believes they were
closely attuned to the sun's movements
and rhythms
what makes the Pueblo communities
different from our neighbors throughout
this entire region is that they were
permanent agrarian
societies to be an agrarian society that
takes a great deal of planning and
problem solving if I plant too late I
may not get a Bountiful Harvest if I
plant too early maybe I'll get a late
Frost so by being able to have an
understanding of what time it means as
it applies to the seasons is essential
for
survival at the top of nearby fajada but
the Chans track the sun to measure the
seasons there were some slabs that
projects sunlight on a spiral on the
Equinox the light hits a certain point
in that and that's why it's called the
Sund
dagger the equinoxes Mark the most
moments in the year when day and night
are of roughly equal
length knowing when these happen is
vital for deciding when to plant and
when to
harvest but the Sund dagger is not the
only evidence that Chans watch the skies
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closely there's also a mysterious
Petroglyph here that suggests people on
this continent may have witnessed
eclipses that have passed across North
America over
centuries you see the circular uh symbol
here perhaps that represents the sun uh
in
totality around the symbol we see lines
or curvatures which perhaps we could
interpret as maybe the corona of the Sun
or the flares of the Sun that perhaps
someone might see in the total
eclipse scientists today can calculate
that in
1097 a total eclipse was visible here
while the sun was nearing the peak of
its solar cycle solar maximum when vast
plumes would have extended from the
Corona That's the tantalizing thing
about it much like whenever we have an
eclipse in our time and age people stop
work people want to go outside to record
this Monumental event because it's
something unique and special it connects
us with the past those are the same
celestial bodies that our predecessors
saw we're just really the same as they
were we just have different
tools there are
574 recognized indigenous communities
across the US with varying perspectives
on solar
eclipses the Navaho people consider an
eclipse to be a moment of renewal that
can be harmful if viewed
Cherokee tradition says a giant frog is
swallowing the
sun and the Frog must be scared away to
bring back the
daylight for the Casual Observer the
timing and location of eclipses can
appear
random after the April 2024 total solar
eclipse it will be 20 years years until
another is visible from the US lower
48 however the period of time between
total eclipses can be much
shorter nature cooperating with Bal H
elaborate preparations were made in
1925 American astronomers watched a
total eclipse as it passed from the
middle of the country to the east
coast some even flew in an Airship to
make
observations this fortunate generation
had already seen two total solar
eclipses in the previous 7
years and would see another only 7 years
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later despite this apparent Randomness
there is a complex pattern behind
eclipses and astonishingly it was was
discovered over 2,000 years
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ago ancient
Babylon situated in what is now modern
Iraq for centuries astronomers here
recorded every occasion an eclipse was
reported eventually around the 7th
Century BC they spotted a
pattern
some very clever Babylonian astronomers
figured out that solar eclipses are
governed by a cycle and this is the
so-call sah
cycle today we know that a total solar
eclipse will take place somewhere on
Earth about once every 18
months but with centuries of data the
Babylonians realized there was a larger
pattern every 18 years
the time between eclipses would
repeat they could actually make an
entire calendar of eclipse predictions
simply by projecting these past eclipses
into the
future astonishingly the Babylonian
predictions were accurate to within an
average of 4
hours but they couldn't tell where in
the world the eclipse would take
place
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it would be another 2,000 years before
astronomers figured out how to do
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that in 1715 the British astronomer
Edmund heli became the first person to
correctly predict a total solar eclipse
by using the mathematics of his good
friend Isaac Newton to calculate the
orbit of the moon around the earth and
therefore where its shadow would fall
across the
countryside in April
1715 hi published this map forecasting
that 2 weeks later an eclipse would pass
over Great
Britain hi had studied records of past
eclipses and rediscovered the Sara cycle
lost since ancient
times this told him an eclipse was
due he then used new accurate
observations of the moon's orbit to
calculate its
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path among the things he had to take
into account was the unusual orbit of
the
moon which is tilted by
5° so most of the time the Moon Shadow
misses our planet which makes eclipses
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rare he also had to factor in the
gravitational effect of the Earth and
the sun which subtly Alters the moon's
position just 28 years earlier Newton
had proposed his new theory of gravity
which allowed hie to accurately
calculate the path of the
eclipse from comparing the maps that
Edmund hel made of the 1715 Eclipse both
before and after based on the
observations by the public public we
find that he was actually within about
20 M amazingly
precise in H's estimate of the time of
the eclipse was off by Just 4
minutes today with more accurate
observations of the moon's orbit
astronomers can predict exactly where an
eclipse will occur to the nearest 100 ft
and when to the nearest tenth of a
second
This Is How They know the precise path
of the 2024 total eclipse years ahead of
time the dance between Earth Moon and
Sun is
predictable but the sun itself and its
Corona are
chaotic coronal mass ejections can
disrupt our power supplies and destroy
are Communications
Technologies so learning how to predict
coronal mass ejections is the Holy Grail
of solar
physics the sun is not some static
unchanging ball of gas right it is
ejecting parts of itself into the solar
system the solar Corona is this Dynamic
and everchanging and incredibly
beautiful Halo of plasma around the sun
it's so important in so many
ways the lines of plasma in the sun's
Corona are
vast they would dwarf the
Earth the force that drives their shape
and
motion is the sun's magnetic
field Earth also has a magnetic
field it's formed by our planet spinning
liquid metal core and gives us our
Magnetic
North and South
Poles but the sun has even stronger
magnetic fields created by the movement
of electrically charged particles
churning beneath the
surface because the plasma is moving
faster in some regions these fields Bend
and
twist
until some break through the sun's
Photosphere into the
corona where they form giant arches
called coronal
Loops because these magnetic fields trap
electrically charged particles they show
up as the bright lines and Loops of
plasma we see in the
corona but these field lines can
snap
the plasma is now free of its chains its
anchors from the Sun and it's free to
blast off into
space in a coronal mass ejection the
corona can throw a billion tons of
plasma out into
space at speeds of almost 2,000
Ms when a coronal mass ejection heads
our way Earth's Own magnetic field
normally deflects it
protecting the
planet but a large coronal mass ejection
can overwhelm our magnetic defenses with
devastating
consequences the coronal mass ejection
can stream toward the Earth and disrupt
our Technologies burn out power stations
damage sensors on satellites wreaking
havoc so we really need to be able to
predict these things
in June 2023 the Parker solar probe
makes a giant leap towards understanding
the mechanisms that project solar
material towards
us the probe flies close enough to the
surface of the Sun to examine the
origins of the solar
wind the sun's surface is a super heated
honeycomb of churning plasma cells each
the size of
Texas here magnetic plasma Loops get
dragged around and
Collide triggering explosions that
release vast amounts of energy and
catapult streams of plasma away from the
Sun scientists have calculated there are
thousands of these
jetletso that they can give birth to the
solar
wind this was a theory as to how some of
the solar wind was
formed as Parker got closer it showed
that this theory is actually at
work when Eugene Parker proposed these
theories they seemed like science
fiction and now they're becoming science
fact soon a new NASA mission called
punch will launch four cameras that will
orbit Earth to continuously map not only
how the solar wind flows towards and
around our planet but also across the
entire solar system so that's from space
Craig DeForest leads the team it doesn't
rule out the four cameras separate out
all the way around the world looking out
in different directions uh we
synchronize them so they're snapping
pictures at the exact same time to image
those clouds of material in all
directions in three dimensions as they
streak across the solar system sweeping
out and past
us with a system like punch we would be
able to track the events all the way
across the solar system this is
revolutionary we expect to be able to
greatly improve forecasting of space
weather back on Earth in October 2023
Craig gears up to test a new version of
an old instrument that for the first
time could make the sun's Elusive and
violent Corona visible to any of us at
any
time it's called a coronograph
what a coronograph does is interpose a
man-made object in front of a telescope
so that we can block out the sun just
like the moon would do and see the
corona around
it but coronagraphs have
limitations it's almost impossible to
block enough of the Sun's light to see
the corona unless they are either
incredibly precise and
expensive or they are deployed in space
above the Earth's light scattering
atmosphere allows the camera to see a
perfectly uniform Field view the team
hopes to produce the first ever
coronograph that anyone can download 3D
print and fit onto a telescope at home
there you there it is perfect we expect
to refine the design and be able to
publish a design that will access the
Corona on any sunny
day to help them test this device the
team has chosen a special
day over Albuquerque New Mexico today
there will be an annular solar
eclipse
the moon's orbit is not a perfect
circle it's very slightly
elliptical so when the moon is farther
from the earth it appears
smaller and doesn't completely cover the
sun creating an annular Eclipse also
known as a ring of fire
Eclipse we have a special case where the
moon does 90% of the work the sky is
much
darker by complete chance the annular
Eclipse coincides with the Albuquerque
International Balloon Fiesta the world's
largest gathering of
balloonists today we have 550 balloons
in this beautiful Albuquerque Sky we'll
have somewhere between
800,000 and 1 million come through our
gates we just got really lucky when we
saw that the eclipse was going to
coincide with our event we couldn't be
happier I think the crowd is going to be
in awe of getting to witness this once
in a-lifetime event because it's not
happened here before we just have to
thank mother nature and the calendar
lining up
together so we are about to have first
Contact 3 2 one oh yeah you see it right
on the top boom there's a
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bite
as the moon begins to line up with the
sun everything starts to get
weird because the sun is turning into a
crescent Sun the Shadows change shape so
is one of the most Eerie things about an
eclipse is the Shadows changing
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shape all right we have
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annularity all right
so this is so
beautiful it's a perfect
circle what a spectacular awesome
site thank you mother nature thank you
mother nature and thank you Balloon
Fiesta this is phenomenal
the visceral reactions that you feel
during the approach and during the
annularity itself are it's very hard to
describe it's it's very
moving annular eclipses are phenomenal
if you can ever get to the path of a
total solar eclipse it is incredible and
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life-changing we won't know until we
analyze the data that we got today just
how much of the corona we saw so if you
look if I turn this thing on and off
people are going
to so this is our coronograph look at
that they seem to line up so I think
we've seen the corona yeah I mean I
think that there's a really good
possibility what we're looking at is the
very first data and what we found is yes
it looks to me like it's the
corona we're not done yet we have more
analysis to do we've really just
begun
during the April 2024 total eclipse
amateur astronomers will work with
Scientists to study how the corona
changes in real
time citizen scientists or Community
participants they're going to get
training and we're going to deploy them
all along the eclipse path from the very
edge of the United States in Texas all
the way to the other Edge in Maine where
they will be able to to observe the
eclipse Shadow passing over each one of
them and that way we can put together
all of their observations into one
hourong movie of
totality and so that gives us
information about how the corona is
evolving and changing over a period of 1
hour these citizen scientists may play a
role in solving one of the most enduring
Mysteries of the
corona
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in the late 1800s a team of astronomers
studying the corona during an eclipse
made a surprising
discovery in 1869 there was a total
solar eclipse visible from the United
States Charles young an astronomer at
Dartmouth College LED an expedition to
Iowa in order to use the brand new
technology of
spectroscopy a spectroscope uses a prism
to divide white light into its
constituent colors or
wavelengths if you heat an element
enough its gas emits light in very
specific
wavelengths viewed through a
spectroscope each element has its own
unique pattern of colored
lines
by pointing a spectroscope at the corona
during an
eclipse young hoped to find the elements
it
contained what he discovered was a
mysterious spectral line no one had ever
seen coming from any element on
Earth he noticed that it was a special
Green Line green light emitted from the
Corona and since it matched up with no
known element people naturally assumed
that there must be some new element not
existing here on the earth that had been
discovered scientists gave this strange
new element a name coronium because it
had been discovered in the
Corona for the next 70 years astronomers
sought to identify what this mystery
element might be what they found in fact
was that it was a known element iron
iron at such a high temperature that 13
of its 26 electrons had been ripped
away astonishingly the corona was so hot
it had turned the metal iron into a
plasma with a spectral line completely
different from Iron found on
Earth only under extraordinarily high
temperatures is this ever possible so
when you see a total solar eclipse and
you witness that amazing Corona you are
seeing the hottest thing you will ever
see with the human
eye the corona is about 2 millon milon
de and that's a problem the surface of
the Sun is only about 10,000
de how can the sun's outer atmosphere be
hotter than its
surface it seems to defy basic laws of
physics back in 2017 in search of
answers scientists came up with a plan
to not only extend viewing time but also
avoid any clouds that might obscure the
eclipse Amir caspy and his team fly two
NASA jet aircraft fitted with telescopes
above the
clouds track the eclipse from an
altitude of 50,000
ft by getting above 90% of the
atmosphere above 90% of the water vapor
we can access wavelengths that we
normally wouldn't be able to on the
ground they hop their data might shed
light on why the corona is so much
hotter than the surface of the
Sun the idea is that they pick up the
track and follow the track straight
through during the entire the Jets could
not keep up with the eclipse Shadow
traveling around 1,500 mph more than
three times as fast as the
planes but by flying two Jets along the
path of the eclipse Amir extended the
viewing time to over 7
Minutes the instruments aboard amir's
Jets could image the infrared radiation
emitted by the Cor Cora in high
resolution infrared radiation is special
because it allows us to probe the
Corona's magnetic field and the Corona's
magnetic field is critically important
for pretty much everything that happens
in the Solar
Corona the infrared images of magnetic
structures in the corona collected by
air in his team in
2017 gave some unexpected
results one of the things that we
noticed is that structures called
prominences this is material from the
solar chromosphere the layer just above
the surface its temperature is only 10
20,000 de C other structures what we
call Active regions those are at
millions of degrees and we saw that
prominences and active regions were
glowing with approximately equal
brightness in the infrared
images that's something that boggled our
minds because they are a 100 times
different in temperature so how could
they be glowing at the same
intensity what are the physical
mechanisms that cause these dramatically
different regions to emit infrared
equally 2024 gives us a new opportunity
to study the Corona and answer some of
the questions that we opened in
2017 in 2024 can new instruments making
even more detailed measurements of
infrared radiation help us explain these
surprising
observations here's your incoming Vector
right Jenna Samra is looking for Clues
she and her team have built their own
spectroscope that also measures the
exact brightness of the infrared
light and they'll install this sensitive
equipment on board a Gulf Stream 5 jet
to track the eclipse from the air
models suggest there are infrared
wavelengths where the corona emits light
that we've not yet detected with
instruments these could eventually help
us measure the Corona's magnetic field
which stores the energy that heats the
corona physicists have predicted a
number of these bright wavelengths
called emission lines and our Spectrum
should Encompass about 20 of these and
about half of these have never been seen
before Jenna wants to find those missing
lines but what if they aren't there oh
okay would that mean the physicist's
predictions are
wrong for now they're just at the start
of their
investigation our instrument is going to
be a stepping stone for understanding
the the physics of the corona including
predicting solar flares and coronal mass
ejections but in a jet moving at over
500 mph power how can you keep the
eclipse perfectly centered so the
spectroscope can take reliable
measurements the apparent position of
the sun starts moving around so this
mirror actually tracks the sun it's
moving a thousand times a second to
basically take out the turbulence of the
airplane the mirror is autoc correcting
it's getting a signal from the camera
it's saying oh the sun has moved off of
Center bring it back to
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side
while Earthbound scientists are limited
to studying this eclipse from one
angle viewing from space will give
scientists an entirely different
perspective on how the sun's Corona and
its magnetic fields are shifting Heating
and Cooling during the
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eclipse the Parker solar probe will be
looking at the sun from 90° in relation
to the rest of us here on Earth during
the 2024
eclipse this will give multiple
perspectives on the Corona and allow
scientists to compare realtime data from
different
angles I'm so excited for the 2024
Eclipse it's been a long time coming to
really understand our star the
sun with clear weather Spectators under
the path of the eclipse can enjoy
totality for almost 4 and 1/2
minutes
but as the moon begins to reveal the sun
further Cosmic treats
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await here's the thing about the Moon is
not a smooth ball there are mountains
there are valleys so between those
valleys and Peaks you get light of the
sun peeking through and those little
bright dots look like a string of beads
we call that Bailey's beads so we can
actually see the Topography of the Moon
Illustrated and Amplified by the light
from the
sun as more sunlight creeps around the
edge of the Moon there's one final
astonishing
display then you have this big bright
spot and this is known as the diamond
ring it is stunning it's beautiful and
you don't want to miss
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it the 2024 Eclipse can teach us more
than ever before about our nearest star
that gives us life on
Earth total solar eclipses our amazing
celestial events to see it was just awe
inspiring to experience something so
extraordinary we are in a golden age
right now of solar
physics our understanding of what the
sun is doing is going to evolve
dramatically countless people around the
world and across Millennia have gave
gazed with Wonder and awe as the sun
disappears this how we as human beings
interpret this event that has been going
on as long as human beings have been on
this
planet let me tell you you have never
seen a shadow this spectacular it is a
truly remarkable event because you'd
have to wait years for the next total
eclipse to go over your
head
31.5 million people live in the path of
totality
a rare moment when the celestial dance
comes
home you don't want to miss this
opportunity to see the eclipse yeah
don't miss
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it
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