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Benjamin Franklin Mocked Eclipse Astrology to Elevate Science
The founding father used his almanacs to promote a scientific understanding of celestial events—often with withering humor
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Use This App to Get the Most From the Coming Eclipse
With livestreams, simulations and safety guides, this Solar Eclipse app will be the key tool for the upcoming astronomical extravaganza
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A Brief History of Eclipse Chasers
They also go by umbraphiles, coronaphiles, eclipsoholics and ecliptomaniacs
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How Eclipse Anxiety Helped Lay the Foundation For Modern Astronomy
The same unease you feel when the moon blots out the sun fueled ancient astronomers to seek patterns in the skies
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Chase August’s Solar Eclipse Aboard This Special Flight
Alaska Airlines will give away one coveted seat on the chartered flight
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Celebrate the Eclipse With a Color-Shifting Stamp
Your next letter just got more celestial
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Will You See August’s Great Eclipse? This New Tool Helps You Find Out
Just plug in a zip code and the solar simulator will show when the big event will pass overhead
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Watch a Partial Solar Eclipse From Space
It’s a preview of even more spectacular things to come
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Fifteen Perfect Spots to Watch the Total Solar Eclipse as it Crosses the U.S. This Summer
One of the most exciting astronomical event in U.S. history is happening in August
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Check Out These Photos From Last Night’s Solar Eclipse
Parts of the pacific and Indonesia went dark last night as the moon moved directly between Earth and the sun
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A Solar Eclipse Will Darken Pacific Skies This Week
Though the actual eclipse can only be seen from select locations, don’t miss the live stream of the event online
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A Rainbow Eclipse and X-Ray Fireworks Are Among These Cosmic Treats
A solar eclipse painted the cloudy U.K. skies and an explosion rocked a stellar corpse in our picks for this week’s best space images
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Here’s What The Solar Eclipse Looked Like From Space
As they orbited the earth, a satellite and an astronaut captured another side of the sun’s disappearing act
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You’ll Want to Watch Today’s Solar Eclipse Create a Gorgeous ‘Ring of Fire’
Tune in this evening to watch the Moon eclipse Australia’s early-morning Sun
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Eclipses Look Even More Gorgeous From Outer Space
With roiling red Sun and the black disk of Earth, eclipses don’t get much prettier than this
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Photo of the Week: Eclipsed Sunset
Photo contest contestant Colleen Pinski captured an onlooker witnessing the annular solar eclipse as the sun sets on May 20, 2012
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A Solar Eclipse, As Seen From the Surface of Mars
Advances in space exploration has changed the way we see eclipses
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The ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse You Might See Sunday
For the first time in 18 years, a solar eclipse will be visible in the continental United States
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