The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled. Total solar eclipses are rare, but exactly how rare is now up for debate after the European Space Agency ...

The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—only reveals itself during total solar eclipses, which happen about every 18 months on Earth, and are only visible along a narrow path. These events offer ...

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

ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft ...

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It is a coronagraph, meaning that it blocks out the solar disk to allow the telescope to focus on the sun's atmosphere, or ...

Solar Eclipses On Command? That's Now A Reality The European Proba-3 spacecraft pair has created its first artificial solar eclipse.

The Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft that fly in close formation to study the sun, has returned images of the first ever artificial solar eclipse ...

Proba-3 creates first artificial solar eclipse in space Proba-3 is made up of two spacecraft, the Coronagraph and the Occulter, that fly 150 metres separated in perfect synchrony.

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.