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Stars and solar physics

Stars and solar physics

Tracing the path towards totality

14 Dec 2016
Taken from the December 2016 issue of Physics World

Sun Moon Earth: the History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets
Tyler Nordgren
2016 Basic Books $26.99hb 256pp

Eclipse chasing: poster for the August 2017 total solar eclipse in the US. (Courtesy: Tyler Nordgren

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Shadia Habbal is a professor of astronomy at the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy, in Manoa, US. So far she has led 14 scientific eclipse expeditions
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