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Article: Total eclipse of the sun will be star of the show.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 10, 1999
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1/3 Back in 1970, when she was just starting her career as an astronomer at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Roberta Humphreys drove to North Carolina to watch a total eclipse of sun.
Since then, Humphreys, a specialist in stellar evolution at the University of Minnesota, has looked across millions of light years to study thousands of stars. Yet she still remembers the powerful emotions of that unique, surreal moment when the world went dark in the middle of the day.
"You kind of stand there in awe," Humphreys said Monday as she pulled out a NASA guide to the total eclipse that will engulf parts of Europe, the Middle East and India early ...