EINSTEIN'S ECLIPSE: The sun's gravity bends spacetime. Today everyone knows this, but a hundred years ago it was just a crazy theory linked to a young German physicist named Einstein. A total eclipse of the sun in May 1919 proved Einstein right. A newly-released image shows how "Einstein's Eclipse" would appear to modern digital cameras, including stars shifted by the warping of spacetime. Check it out on today's edition of Spaceweather.com.
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Above: "Einstein's Eclipse," restored. Credit: ESO/Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl/F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, & C. Davidson, P. Horálek/Institute of Physics in Opava, M. Druckmüller.
