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From Solar corona to human emotions: What can we learn from eclipses? (2/4)

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 1663 words · By Pauline ROUQUETTE
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From Solar corona to human emotions: What can we learn from eclipses?

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From Solar corona to human emotions: What can we learn from eclipses?

Why it matters

(2/4) Total solar eclipse (2/4) A total solar eclipse will sweep across northern Spain on August 12 in one of Europe's most anticipated astronomical events of the decade.

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From the Sun's corona to animal behaviour and human emotions, these rare celestial events continue to provide scientists with valuable insights more than two millennia after they were first observed.

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Claim 1: “mainland Europe set to witness its first total solar eclipse since 1999”
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France24 and Flipboard both report that the upcoming eclipse in northern Spain is the first total solar eclipse in mainland Europe since 1999.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1999 European Tour, titled as the 1999 PGA European Tour, was the 28th season of the European Tour, the main professional golf tour in Europe since its inaugural season in 1972.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_European_Tour
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterrane…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Miss Europe 1999, was 53rd edition of the Miss Europe pageant and 42nd under the Mondial Events Organization. It was held in Beirut, Lebanon on 25 June 1999. Yelena Rogozhina of Russia, was crowned Mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Europe_1999
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Claim 2: “The study's results, published in 2022, found that those who witnessed totality expressed more intense feelings of awe and used language that was less self-centered and more prosocial, supportive, humble and collective.”
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Claim 3: “Understanding of the solar corona – itself identified in 1842 as part of the Sun, not the Moon as had previously been believed”
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A specific educational source ('Solar eclipse Facts for Kids') explicitly states that the corona was identified as part of the Sun in 1842.
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web search NEUTRAL — The high temperature of the solar corona was deduced in four steps. During the total solar eclipse of 7 August 1869, astronomers Charles Young and William Harkness independently discovered a bright li…
https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/why-is-the-suns-corona…
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web search NEUTRAL — Total solar eclipse (2/4) A total solar eclipse will sweep across northern Spain on August 12 in one of Europe's most anticipated astronomical events of the decade. From the Sun's corona to animal beh…
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260810-from-solar-coron…
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web search NEUTRAL — During a partial solar eclipse, the Moon blocks only a part of the Sun.Scientists learned a lot about the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, by observing it during eclipses. The corona was identified…
https://kids.kiddle.co/Solar_eclipse
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Claim 4: “The solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, visible from central Brazil to East Africa... made it possible to prove Einstein's theory of general relativity through measurements of the deflection of starlight by the Sun.”
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Wikipedia (Eddington experiment) and other sources confirm the May 29, 1919 eclipse was used to prove Einstein's theory of general relativity via the deflection of starlight.
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web search NEUTRAL — The 29 May 1919 solar eclipse. The Eddington experiment was an observational test of general relativity, organised by the British astronomers Frank Watson Dyson and Arthur Stanley Eddington in 1919.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment
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web search NEUTRAL — The total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, observed from Príncipe off West Africa and Sobral in Brazil. Einstein's general relativity predicted that the Sun's gravity would bend the path of light from d…
https://involves.ai/moments/the-eclipse-that-tested-einstein
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web search NEUTRAL — Gravity deflects starlight under general relativity. The apparent position of a star that just passes near the edge of the sun would be deflected by 1.75 arcsec in Einstein’s theory. S&T: Leah Tiscion…
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/a-picture-perfect…
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Claim 5: “That was the case in 1868, when helium – named after the Greek "helios", meaning Sun – was discovered in the Sun's spectrum before it was even identified on Earth.”
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Wikipedia and multiple web sources confirm helium was discovered in the Sun's spectrum on August 18, 1868, before being identified on Earth (1895).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sun is the star located at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surf…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs approximately ev…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Helium (from Ancient Greek: ἥλιος, romanized: helios, lit. 'sun') is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2. It is a colorless, odorless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas and the firs…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium
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Claim 6: “The initiative, called "Project Solaris" and led by the Catalan government, will collect biometric data from the smartwatches of 5,000 volunteers before, during and after the total solar eclipse.”
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Claim 7: “A pilot feasibility study also attempted to measure the brain and heart responses of observers during an annular eclipse... in New Mexico in 2023.”
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Claim 8: “A total solar eclipse will sweep across northern Spain on August 12”
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Multiple independent news sources (France24, EuroNews, Flipboard) confirm that a total solar eclipse will sweep across northern Spain on August 12 (specifically 2026).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemispher…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, 12 August 2026, with a magnitude of 1.0386. Totality occurred in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the part…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_12,_20…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain
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Claim 9: “the temperature of the solar corona, which reaches 1.5 million Kelvin, or more in certain places, while the Sun's surface itself is "only" 5,800 Kelvin.”
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Multiple sources confirm the corona reaches temperatures in the millions of Kelvin (1-2 million degrees C / 1.8-3.6 million F), which is significantly hotter than the photosphere (surface).
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web search NEUTRAL — During a total solar eclipse, the Sun's corona and prominences are visible to the naked eye.The average temperature is between two and four million kelvin, while the density goes from 109 to 1010 part…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_corona
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web search NEUTRAL — Total solar eclipse (2/4) A total solar eclipse will sweep across northern Spain on August 12 in one of Europe's most anticipated astronomical events of the decade. From the Sun's corona to animal beh…
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260810-from-solar-coron…
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web search NEUTRAL — The sun's corona can reach temperatures of around 1.8 million degrees F to 3.6 million degrees F (1 to 2 million degrees C), that's up to 500 times hotter than the photosphere.
https://www.space.com/17137-how-hot-is-the-sun.html
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Claim 10: “One of the earliest traces of an eclipse observation may be a clay tablet discovered in the city of Ugarit, in present-day Syria, dating back to 1223 BCE.”
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The provided evidence contains general information about clay and the city of Aleppo, but no specific mention of a clay tablet from Ugarit dating to 1223 BCE recording an eclipse.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ancient City of Aleppo (Arabic: مدينة حلب القديمة, romanized: Madīnat Ḥalab al-Qadīma) is the historic city centre of Aleppo, Syria. Prior to the Syrian Civil War, many districts of the ancient ci…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Aleppo
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hauron, Horon, Haurun or Hawran (from Egyptian ḥwrwnꜣ) was an ancient Egyptian god worshiped in Giza. He was closely associated with Harmachis, with the names in some cases used interchangeably, and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauron
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Aleppo, Syria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Aleppo
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Claim 11: “During the 2017 eclipse in the United States, researchers at the University of California studied nearly three million social media posts from people located both inside and outside the path of totality, a band stretching from Oregon to South Carolina.”
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Claim 12: “A team of Spanish researchers has put out a call to recruit 300 volunteers for the fateful day to analyse how animal species react to a sudden onset of darkness in the middle of the day. The experiment, named EcoEclipse”
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The claim is reported by France 24, but no other independent sources corroborate the specific 'EcoEclipse' experiment or the recruitment of 300 volunteers.
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web search NEUTRAL — NIGHTMARE 300 with the BEST AFK THOR BUILD in MARVEL RIVALS BLOOD HUNT. Jeluuuu. 6.7K 12d ago.
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web search NEUTRAL — A team of Spanish researchers has put out a call to recruit 300 volunteers for the fateful day to analyse how animal species react to a sudden onset of darkness in the middle of the day. The experimen…
https://risingnepaldaily.com/news/84845
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web search NEUTRAL — Solar eclipses occur in cycles, called eclipse cycles. One of the most popularly studied eclipse cycles is the Saros cycle, which the ancient Babylonians used to predict lunar eclipses.
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/how-often-solar-eclipse.…
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Claim 13: “A solar eclipse over the Greek island of Paros in 648 BCE inspired the following words from the poet Archilochus”
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The evidence provided includes general information about Greek colonization and solar energy, but does not mention a 648 BCE eclipse over Paros or the poet Archilochus.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Turya or Turanian (Avestan: 𐬙𐬏𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀, romanized: tūriia) is the ethnonym of a group mentioned in the Avesta, i.e., the collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. In those texts, the Turyas closely i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turya_(Avesta)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Year 394 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Camillus, Poplicola, Medullinus, Albinus, Mamercinus and Scipio (or, less frequently,…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Greek colonisation was the expansion of Archaic Greeks across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BCE. The Archaic expansion differed from the Iron Age m…
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