๐ Europe's First Total Solar Eclipse in 27 Years Just Revealed the Sun's Hidden Corona
On August 12th, a total solar eclipse swept across Greenland, Iceland, and Spain โ Europe's first in over two decades โ plunging observers into a brief midday twilight. With the Moon blocking the Sun's disk, the solar corona blazed into naked-eye view. ESA livestreamed from Spain's Javalambre Observatory, where totality lasted 1 minute and 21 seconds, giving scientists a rare chance to study the corona's structure directly. The corona remains one of the great puzzles of astrophysics โ it runs a million degrees hotter than the surface beneath it. What did those 81 precious seconds of darkness reveal?
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