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UH astronomers observe eclipse in Libyan desert
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Six University of Hawaii astronomers traveled to the Sahara desert in Libya with a ton of special instruments to study the sun's outer corona for four minutes and six seconds during a total eclipse on March 29.
"Each one of those seconds was precious," said Jeff Kuhn, associate director of the UH Institute for Astronomy's Maui Division.
The team took three new instru...
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