A pair of European satellites are creating artificial solar eclipses to provide hours of on-demand totality for scientists.

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First artificial solar eclipse captured in orbit By Talker News Jun 17, 2025 Updated Jun 17, 2025 (ESA/NASA/Proba-2/Proba-3 et al. via SWNS) ...

Two European satellites created an "artificial total solar eclipse" in space, the European Space Agency announced June 16, delivering data that will improve scientists' understanding of the sun ...

The difference is that we can create our eclipse once every 19.6-hour orbit, while total solar eclipses only occur naturally around once, very rarely twice, a year,” Zhukov explains in an ESA ...

This technique mimics a total solar eclipse, which on Earth lasts only a few minutes, but in space can be sustained for hours. ESA said Monday, June 16: "This March, Proba-3 achieved what no other ...

Zhukov anticipates an average of two solar eclipses per week being produced for a total of nearly 200 during the two-year mission, yielding more than 1,000 hours of totality. That will be a ...