The solar corona can be seen during the solar eclipse on April 8. Astronomers are still trying to figure out the mysteries of the corona, including why it’s so hot.
Some time measurements, like months and years, use the movements of the moon and sun, respectively. But other time measurements, like the hour, aren’t clearly connected to astronomical phenomena.
Elizabeth Campbell operating the Floyd Telescope, 1922 total solar eclipse.
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History might give you the impression astronomical discoveries were only done by men. But women were participating in scientific expeditions of eclipses too, even though it wasn’t easy.
The documentary fails to accurately portray Sheryl Gascoigne as the victim of domestic abuse perpetrated by her then-husband, Paul Gascoigne.
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To tell you the truth, nobody really knows. But it’s probably got to do with the fact that signals from your nose and your eyes arrive in the same area of your brain.
It’s all to do with the light from the Sun and a blanket of air wrapped around Earth called the ‘atmosphere’.
Author Andrew Sullivan has gone from blogging to writing for mainstream publications to blogging again, this time on Substack.
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High-profile media figures are defecting to Substack, where readers will have to pay a subscription to read their work. Could Substack remind news consumers that paying for journalism is worth it?
British Muslims protesting their treatment by the UK media in 2007. Nothing much has changed.
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