
Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs Bad Astronomy kaBLAM Footage of the X-class solar flare MESSENGER’s family portrait Dialing in a radio eclipse On January 4, 2011, the Moon passed directly in front of the Sun , treating much of Europe , north Africa and western Asia to a total solar eclipse . I saw lots of really interesting pictures from the event , but this has to win for what must be the oddest image Click to penumbranate . This was the view using LOFAR or the LO w F requency AR ray , a radio telescope in the Netherlands . It’s designed to sense radio waves from space in the range of 10 250 Megahertz which encompasses FM radio and TV