Hiding in Starlight

By StevenJDickie on Dec 25, 2024

Total solar eclipses, like the one seen last month in North America, allow us to see details of the sun that can’t be seen at any other time. So, this month, The Sky at Night team looks at how scientists are creating eclipses on demand and discovering the secrets that can be revealed hidden in that starlight, including habitable planets like our own.Maggie Aderin-Pocock travels to Belgium, where the European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission is going through its final testing stages. This groundbre…