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Watch the 2006 total eclipse with ESA

28 March 2006

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Eclipse of the Sun at solar maximum (Courtesy Wendy Carlos)

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ESA Sun worshippers at ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, use special mylar sunglasses to view the Venus transit of the Sun in 2004.

Credits: ESA

SOHO and the eclipse

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A SOHO LASCO C2 image of the solar corona. LASCO (Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph) is able to take images of the solar corona by blocking the light coming directly from the Sun with an occulter disk, creating an artificial eclipse within the instrument itself.

The position of the solar disk is indicated in the image by the white circle. The most prominent feature of the corona are usually the coronal streamers, those nearly radial bands that can be seen. Occasionally, a coronal mass ejection can be see being expelled away from the Sun and crossing the fields of view.

This C2 image shows the inner solar corona up to 8.4 million kilometres away from the Sun on 20 June 2001.

Credits: ESA/NASA

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