Myth busted: Total solar eclipses don't release special, blinding radiation, NASA says

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Ben Turner is a U.K. based staff writer at Live Science. He covers physics and astronomy, among other topics like tech and climate change. He graduated from University College London with a degree in particle physics before training as a journalist.

Today , a total solar eclipse will sweep across 15 U.S. states, plunging a 115-mile-wide , 10,000-mile-long path into sudden darkness as the moon's enormous shadow glides across the face of the sun.

In the present, scientists know a lot more about eclipses but that doesn't mean that all of humanity's fears around the celestial events have been assuaged. "Scientists have studied this radiation for centuries," the post reads."Being a million times fainter than the light from the sun itself, there is nothing in the coronal light that could cross 150 million kilometers of space, penetrate our dense atmosphere, and cause blindness."

 

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