Mark McCaughrean on Nostr: Another day, another story from The Guardian about *NASA* observing the total solar ...
Another day, another story from The Guardian about *NASA* observing the total solar eclipse in Europe on Wednesday 🙄
This is just lazy journalism – Spain is home to one of ESA's main centres, ESAC, & a deep-space antenna at Cebreros (also threatened by wildfires like NASA's nearby DSN complex).
ESA is also live-streaming the eclipse, in this case from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre in Teruel & hosting a public event in Léon.
Do some research, folks ...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/10/spain-tourists-solar-eclipse-increased-wildfires-riskPublished at
2026-08-10 19:40:15 UTCEvent JSON
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