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In 2017 @DownHereOnEarth hung out with scientists @UHIFA during an eclipse while they scrambled to find out as much as possible about the sun’s corona during two brief minutes of darkness newscientist.com/article/214474…
The 2015 the partial solar eclipse in Europe provided an ideal stress test for Germany, the world’s most solar-powered country, and by extension for the future of solar power. It passed. During the eclipse the sun went out but the lights stayed on newscientist.com/article/dn2722…
More strangely, bees stopped buzzing in the US during the 2017 solar eclipse. A set of 16 monitoring stations recorded bees suddenly going quiet during the three-minute period of totality. Only one buzz was recorded across all of the microphones newscientist.com/article/218205…
And because why not? Some incredible images of eclipses. Czech photographer Miloslav Druckmüller took this from the Enewetak Radiological Observatory on the Marshall Islands in the North Pacific Ocean during the solar eclipse in 2009 newscientist.com/article/mg2192… 
…while Luc Jamet won the @RMGreenwich 2015 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition for this picture of the total solar eclipse that year newscientist.com/article/dn2819…
@RMGreenwich There’s more for ecliptomaniacs and others on @newscientist newscientist.com/article-topic/…
