The solar eclipse will be visible across much of the US, tracing a 112-kilometre-wide band across 14 states, researchers said. They completed a series of highly detailed solar simulations timed to the moment of the eclipse using University of Texas at Austin's Stampede2 supercomputer, Comet at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and NASA's Pleiades supercomputer. "Advanced computational resources are crucial to developing detailed physical models of the solar corona and solar wind," said Jon Linker, president and senior research scientist of Predictive Science Inc (PSI), the US company that forecast the corona of the Sun. The researchers' computer simulations were converted into scientific visualisations that approximate what the human eye might see during the solar eclipse. Doing so improves the accuracy of predicting space weather, which could have important practical ramifications.

Source: dna August 19, 2017 10:52 UTC