... 2008 August 18 . Baily's Beads near Solar Eclipse Totality . ... As the Moon moves to completely cover the Sun in a total solar eclipse , beads of bright sunlight stream around the edge of the Moon. ... Pictured above, a series of images recorded Baily's beads at times surrounding the recent total solar eclipse visible from Novosibirsk , Russia . ... At the end of totality, as the Sun again emerges from behind the moon, Baily's beads may again be visible -- but now on the other side of the Moon. ...

... Credit: Mike Simmons ( Astronomers Without Borders , TWAN ) Explanation: Contrary to the famous myth , you can't see the Great Wall of China from the Moon ... even during a total solar eclipse . But on August 1 you could see the Moon eclipsing the Sun from the Great Wall. In fact, from this location near the Great Wall's western end, the Moon completely blocked the Sun's overwhelming disk revealing a shimmering solar corona and bright planets in the briefly darkened sky. ... August Moons . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. August 18, 1999 . Sun Block . ... Explanation: During a total solar eclipse, Earth's moon blocks the sun - almost exactly. While the sun is about 400 times wider than the moon, it is also about 400 times farther away and each appears to be half a degree or so in diameter. ... Tomorrow's picture: Light From The Dark Sun . ... About APOD > . ...

... A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes in front of the Sun. If the Moon completely covers the Sun, it is a total solar eclipse. ... Although you will not see the 1 August event as a total eclipse in Ireland, you will see a partial eclipse, starting around 9:23 am local time (8:23 UT). The last solar eclipse was seen in Ireland two years ago, on 29 March 2006. ... Friday, 11 July 2008 00:08 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

The Sun's corona . ... For instance, short "plumes" rising from the polar regions of the Sun look very much like field lines coming out of the end of a bar magnet, and they therefore suggest that the Sun, in addition to the intense fields of sunspots, also has a global magnetic field like the Earth's. Arches above the . Sun's surface . ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . Moon . ... March . ... A partial solar eclipse seen from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA on 20 May 21012. Image credit: T. Ruen via wWikimedia.org . ... March also brings around the rare spectacle of a total solar eclipse on the 20 th . ... Jupiter meets the Crab in the March sky (image credit: Samantha Steed/Armagh Planetarium/Stellarium) . ... Image credit: Samantha Steed/Armagh Planetarium/Stellarium) . ...

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... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Many of you will recognise the object in this space photograph as a galaxy: a collection of billions of bright, shining stars, and cosmic gas and dust. In this day and age, almost everyone has seen a photograph of a galaxy, making it hard to believe that less than 100 years ago most of the world s top astronomers didn t believe they existed! ... Before then, the existence of galaxies was uncertain. ...