"Most people just dismiss partial eclipses. But I wanted to go to this partial eclipse to try to get the corona — and I did ...

It’s so big that you can view it yourself using eclipse glasses (but it’s going to disappear soon from our line of sight). The most intense solar storm ever recorded took place in 1859.

But they need to use special eclipse glasses ... For reference, in 1859, a massive solar storm, known as the Carrington Event, caused telegraph lines to spark and ignited auroras as far south ...