One of the most important eclipses in history happened in 1919. This particular eclipse cut a path across South America and the Atlantic Ocean, and landed on the west coast of Africa. Waiting on the ...

From a young age, Arthur Eddington, who was born Dec. 28, 1882, in England, excelled in math and physics. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1905, he became the chief assistant to ...

Glass positive photograph of the corona, taken at Sobral in Brazil, with a telescope of 4 inches in aperture and 19 feet focal length. The expedition, organised by physicist Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 ...