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Solar eclipse
About: Solar eclipse is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2737 publications have been published within this topic receiving 22625 citations.
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TL;DR: The solar eclipse of May 1919 as discussed by the authors revealed that stars close to the Sun appeared to have moved slightly from their usual positions in the sky, which confirmed a prediction of the general theory of relativity.
Abstract: Rarely has a single event changed our view of the universe as much as the solar eclipse of May 1919. With the Sun's light blocked by the Moon, Sir Arthur Eddington and colleagues observed that stars close to the Sun appeared to have moved slightly from their usual positions in the sky. This confirmed a prediction of the general theory of relativity – that massive bodies can bend light – which overturned Newton's 200-year-old theory of gravitation and propelled Albert Einstein to global stardom.
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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: The Lick Observatory sent a succession of expeditions to the far corners of the Earth to observe solar eclipses and add to our knowledge of the solar corona and the chromosphere.
Abstract: Between 1889 and 1932 Lick Observatory maintained a vibrant solar research program and sent a succession of expeditions to the far corners of the glove in order to observe solar eclipses and add to our knowledge of the solar corona and the chromosphere. These expeditions were major logistical exercises that relied mainly on visual, photographic and spectroscopic observations during the brief moments of totality.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an allusion to a double dawn phenomenon in an ancient Chinese chronicle, which has been identified as caused by a sunrise eclipse occurring in 899 BC, is discussed.
Abstract: An allusion to a 'double dawn' phenomenon in an ancient Chinese chronicle, which has been identified as caused by a sunrise eclipse occurring in 899 BC, is discussed This event has been regarded as of considerable importance in the investigation of earth's past rotation It is shown that an eclipse interpretation is implausible, not least because the eclipse in question was only annular
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TL;DR: In this paper, the variations of electron density during the annular solar eclipse of 25 December 1954 for various fixed heights in the F1 and F2 layers of the ionosphere are compared with the variations expected under alternative assumptions that the removal of free electrons is by recombination and attachment.
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