Eclipse 2024: ‘The horizon glowed as if dawn had broken on the wrong side of the world’
by Simon Calder
Apr 09, 2024
2 minutes
“We were in connection directly with the universe, with the sun, with the moon, and we are so humble to see that.”
Minutes after the moon blotted out the sun for 90 surreal seconds on an island in the St Lawrence River, Olivier Hernandez, director of the Montreal Planetarium and a noted astrophysicist, was almost in tears.
“It was so emotional. I was about to
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