Newmark said people should not peer up at the sky to view the solar event without special viewing equipment.
And new software, plus the ability to vary the projected sizes and brightnesses of planets and moons, makes it possible to simulate the sky from anywhere in the solar system: to see earthrise from Mars, for example, or to watch Jupiter's moons rise and set from a vantage point just above the gas giant's cloud-tops.
Three years later a British physicist, Arthur Eddington, watched what happened to light from stars that were close in the sky to the sun during a solar eclipse.
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Twenty million metric tons of sulfur dioxide mixed with droplets of water, creating a kind of gaseous mirror, which reflected solar rays back into the sky.
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Most financial talk treats systemic risk as a matter of exogenous events, sort of like comets that originate outside the normal operations of the solar system, unpredictably appearing, flashing across the sky and then suddenly disappearing.
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Solar eruptions trigger aurorae on Earth, filling the night sky at high latitudes with dancing lights.
While the solar activity often produces a magnificent aurora in the night sky, it also can interfere with satellites, aviation radar, radio signals and other electronic equipment.
Mars and Jupiter, tearing through the outer reaches of the solar cloud at supersonic speeds, will appear as bright streaks in the sky.
Solar blasts heading toward Earth can stoke up beautiful auroras in the nighttime sky, and wreak havoc on communications satellites and electrical power grids.
Added up over the whole sky, this suggested that the belt might contain a billion or more comets waiting to be unleashed on the inner solar system.
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