Dazzling beauty of solar eclipse
2010-03-11 02:46:34 GMT2010-03-11 10:46:34 (Beijing Time)
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The pictures were taken during an eclipse over the isolated Marshall Islands by photographer, also a professor of mathematics, Milloslav Druckmuller, near Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean, July, 2009. (CFP)
A photo montage captured during a solar eclipse over the Marshall Islands by photographer Milloslav Druckmuller in July 2009. The beautiful image shows the solar corona that makes up the sun's "atmosphere" in amazing detail as the sun passes behind the Moon. (CFP)
This was the view from the Marshall Islands where the pictures were taken in 2008. Duckmuller has travelled the world chasing eclipses. (CFP)
As well as being very hot, the ionised gas of the corona (called plasma) has a superthin consistency. It is less than a billionth of the density of the hydrogen that makes up the main ball of the Sun. (CFP)
The pictures were taken during an eclipse over the isolated Marshall Islands by photographer, also a professor of mathematics, Milloslav Druckmuller, near Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean, July, 2009.
