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Excitement Builds Around the Wyoming Total Eclipse And General Relativity

In August, there will be a total eclipse of the sun visible over the United States.  No. 1 and her mom, our resident physics professor, turned out this diagram of starlight bending around the sun because the sun's mass curves space.  Can a general relativity experiment be far behind? In other news, metallic ink pens do interesting things under photo filters. The following day, this all inspired No. 1's derivative artwork :)