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Courtesy of SwRI / Citizen CATE 2024 / Ritesh Patel / Dan Seaton
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This high-res processed image of the April 8 eclipse shows the Sun’s corona, its outermost atmosphere, in artificial colors that indicate the polarization or orientation of the light. Citizen scientists in Dallas collected these data through the SwRI-led Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) 2024 experiment.