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A pair of European satellites are creating artificial solar eclipses to provide hours of on-demand totality for scientists.

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock ...

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In a revolutionary move that is bound to “transform solar observing”, the European Space Agency 's (ESA) Proba-3 has already imaged the first artificial solar eclipse in space after two of the ...

The sun’s corona (or outer atmosphere) has proved a difficult subject for solar scientists on Earth to study, appearing only in a total solar eclipse. This phenomenon, occurring once in around 18 ...

Credit: ESA-P. Carril ESA’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a spacefaring marvel: two satellites flying in perfect formation to mimic total solar eclipses on demand. Their first artificial eclipse ...

Two European satellites took photographs of a recent experiment, taken while facing the sun, where they mimicked the circumstances that cause a total solar eclipse. Launched last year, the Proba-3 ...

One of the ways that scientists study solar wind—charged particles streaming from the sun’s surface—is by observing the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona. But because the sun is so blindingly ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has achieved a rather unusual feat, successfully creating and maintaining artificial solar eclipses in space with its Proba-3 mission.

First artificial solar eclipse captured in orbit By Talker News Jun 17, 2025 Updated Jun 17, 2025 (ESA/NASA/Proba-2/Proba-3 et al. via SWNS) ...