The object seems to be travelling on a steep path - suggesting it came from the Milky Way's "thick disk", an area of ancient ...

And soon, a group of scientists can say they have. A UK-led space mission will see astronomers blot out the Sun by using a ...

Using an engineering feat never before accomplished scientists have created artificial solar eclipses, so that they can view ...

An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the ...

ESA twin satellites create artificial eclipses to observe the sun corona The sun’s corona was clearly visible without special image processing Each recreated eclipse may last up to six hours for deepe ...

For hundreds of years, the only time mankind could see the Sun’s corona, which is the highly hot and ethereal outer atmosphere, was during a total solar eclipse. But the European orbit Agency (ESA) ...

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

See the first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission.

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Proba-3 captures first images of artificial eclipses, offering a new view of the sun’s corona.