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A smartphone on a white background shows an image of the Sun just after totality during the August 2017 total solar eclipse. The Sun’s corona appears as bright white wisps and beams around the black circle of the Moon. Along the right edge of the black circle, a string made of bright points of sunlight shines through the ragged edge of the Moon’s disk in a phenomenon known as Baily’s beads.
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Making an Eclipse an Inclusive Multisensory Experience

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 7 May 202128 September 2021

New tools are helping make solar eclipse experiences and research accessible to people who are blind or low vision, communities often excluded from historically visually based sciences like astronomy.

A red moon during total lunar eclipse
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Earth’s Skies Transmitted Signs of Life During Lunar Eclipse

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 12 March 20207 March 2022

Using upcoming ground- and space-based telescopes, scientists hope to make similar observations of the skies of distant, Earth-like exoplanets.

Two adults and two children view a solar eclipse through eclipse glasses.
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Recycled Glasses Connect Eclipse Watchers Across the Equator

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 2 July 201926 January 2022

Instead of throwing them in the trash, millions donated their slightly used eclipse glasses so that others around the world could share the experience.

The Moon during the 21 January total lunar eclipse with a visible impact flash
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A Meteor Struck the Moon During the Total Lunar Eclipse

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 23 January 201930 August 2022

Telescopes around the world detected an impact event on the lunar surface just before totality on Monday. Amateur and professional astronomers are starting to coordinate data.

Moon’s shadow obscures Sun during Great American Eclipse
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Great American Eclipse Data May Fine-Tune Weather Forecasts

by T. R. Lee, M. Buban, M. A. Palecki, R. D. Leeper, H. J. Diamond, E. Dumas, T. P. Meyers and C. B. Baker 16 August 201811 August 2022

Measurements taken by an automated national meteorological monitoring network during the 2017 total solar eclipse illuminate how the land and atmosphere respond to a sudden loss of sunlight.

The August 2017 solar eclipse in green light
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Seeing Green: A Stratospheric View of the 2017 Total Eclipse

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 24 May 201815 June 2022

Airborne telescopes gave scientists a sky-high view of the 2017 Great American Eclipse as they took measurements that are difficult to obtain from the ground.

A crowd waits for totality at a 21 August 2017 eclipse viewing party in South Carolina.
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Howling at the Moon with Eclipse Enthusiasts

by M. Kumar 22 August 20174 November 2022

From the reporters who stared at goats to poets who tweeted haiku, eclipse watchers across the nation flaunted their weird.

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Eclipse’s Last Major Stop Is Rich in Science and Amazement

by Randy Showstack 21 August 201729 April 2022

Eclipse celebrations and scientific preparations abound in the final large U.S. population center to see Monday’s total eclipse.

A view of 21 August’s total solar eclipse from Oregon.
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Sixteen Eclipse Studies That Illuminate Science from the Shadow

by JoAnna Wendel and M. Kumar 17 August 20174 May 2022

From jets that will chase the Moon’s shadow to a telescope designed to mimic the eyes of a mantis shrimp, projects across the United States will pack science into mere minutes when day turns to dark.

Solar eclipse enthusiasts gather for the 26 February 1979 total solar eclipse in Goldendale, Wash.
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Small Towns Brace for Historic Eclipse Crowds

by JoAnna Wendel and L. O’Hanlon 15 August 201725 October 2022

Some towns have known for a decade to prepare; others learned as little as a year ago about the event and what it might bring to their locale.

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