Art Captures Perception of Solar Corona

"After 150 years of expeditions, we have finally arrived at a definitive understanding of the corona revealed by solar eclipses."

In a video courtesy of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, research scientist Richard Woo explains how art -- particularly Howard Russell Butler's painting of the 1932 eclipse -- captures the eye's perception of the corona, which differs from what a simple camera captures.

The video accompanies Woo's article on the topic, published in the July-August 2016 issue of American Scientist: