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People in a much larger region of the world can anticipate seeing a partial solar eclipse, in which the moon blocks only a fraction of the sun's disk.
CNN: Africa awaits total eclipse of the sun
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By comparison, meteors of the type that hit Russia originate at the earliest reaches of time in the disk of gas and dust that swirled around the early sun.
WSJ: Russia Meteor Was Largest in More Than a Century
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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 solar disk.
CNN: Africa awaits total eclipse of the sun
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If our solar system's disk wasn't ionized, its material would not have been funneled onto the young sun's surface, researchers said.
MSN: Earth's hot formation may be reason behind water shortage
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Sun is first releasing a new version of its Solaris operating system designed to integrate flash and traditional disk-drive storage, and in the next six months it plans to sell its own flash storage drives aimed at businesses.
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Two thousand years hence, Sherwood says hypothesized collections of Asteroidal materials congregating at the Earth-Sun L4 and L5 gravitational equilibrium points would make for building materials to construct a large rotating pancake disk capable of housing thousands of people in the comfort of a free-breathing atmosphere and some form of artificial gravity.
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