A fake and a real view of the solar eclipse... FROM SPACE!

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
May 22, 2012 4:00 PMNov 20, 2019 4:41 AM

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[First: CONGRATS to SpaceX for the successful launch of the Falcon 9 and deployment of the Dragon capsule! Everything looked great and things are apparently going smoothly. You can watch the whole thing here, and I'll have more about all this in a little while. Until then, back to your regularly scheduled blog post.]

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