Cosmic quirks led to the formation of such a distance between the Moon and the Earth that the satellite constantly changes its appearance in the night sky. Periodically, the moon passes directly between the planet and the sun, blocking the star and temporarily blocking its light. Thus, a total solar eclipse is formed for observers who find themselves in the zone of falling of the lunar shadow.
However, sometimes the alignment is set so that the moon only partially overlaps the solar disk. Such a private solar eclipse fell on August 11. The ESA Proba-2 satellite, which flies around the earth’s orbit 14.5 times a day with a change in viewing angle, managed to twice plunge into the moon shadow and capture this amazing event.
Selected views are shown in the picture. A SWAP camera operating on extreme UV-waves was used to capture the hot turbulent stellar atmosphere (corona) at a temperature of one million degrees.
