During his 32nd solar eclipse observation, the Harvard-trained astronomer is to study the elusive coronal ring, the outer atmosphere of the sun, which can only be seen when the moon blots out the solardisk.
Intevac shares are trading sharply higher after the disk-drive and solar manufacturing equipment supplier issued robust guidance for the second quarter.
Proposed sources of such high heating in the early solar nebula have included everything from colliding asteroids, gamma ray bursts, solar x-ray flares, even lightning in the proto-planetary disk itself.