14 August 2018
Chinese scientists have put forward a novel idea to view a total solar eclipse in space by using the earth to cover the sun, so they might have a longer and more accurate observation and study the source of solar storms. Cooperating with scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China and the Innovation Academy of Microsatellites of the CAS, Luo Bingxian, a researcher at the National Space Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) took the idea to a contest of innovative future technologies and was selected as one of 30 winning projects. The project is about putting a telescope, the Earth and Sun in a straight line. His team calculated the best place for the telescope was close to the second Lagrange point (L2) of the sun-earth system, about 1.4 million kilometers from the Earth.
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