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The Aerospace eXperimental Payloads team is readying a balloon to be launched during Monday's solar eclipse.

Nebraska team launches eclipse research balloon

April 8, 2024

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April is a great month to find whatever excuse you can to get outside around campus!

Solar Social, spring game highlight month of April

April 3, 2024

Solar Social to celebrate April 8 eclipse

March 29, 2024

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln weather drone flies into the atmosphere during the solar eclipse Monday, Aug. 21, 2017.

Huskers use eclipse to study impacts of rapid atmospheric changes

August 24, 2017

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Aerial image of the approaching eclipse shadow captured by the Nebraska team that launched high altitude balloons to study the Aug. 21 event.

Project successfully takes to the sky to collect eclipse data

August 24, 2017

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"Going with the Flow" by Olga Prins Lukowski was one of nine eclipse-themed quilts on display at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum on Aug. 19-20. The design features jewel-like celestial objects.

Clear skies or no, the eclipse is coming

August 21, 2017

Michael Sibbernsen (right) and Hannah Paxton use the observatory atop the Stadium Parking Garage at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The university will use the observatory to record the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse.

Are you ready for the eclipse?

August 18, 2017

Austin Aren, a third-year landscape architecture student, is helping the National Park Service plan for solar eclipse events at Homestead National Monument.

Eclipse offers Husker an opportunity to shine

August 17, 2017

Nebraska Extension seeks citizen scientists for eclipse

August 16, 2017

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"A Rare Occurrence" at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum will feature nine quilts celebrating the solar eclipse.

'A Rare Occurrence' opens at quilt musem

August 16, 2017

Students look at the sun using specialized glasses. The university will provide the glasses to students for the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse.

Husker students, faculty, staff to view eclipse together

August 15, 2017

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Thirty weather stations in Nebraska are within the path of total eclipse. | Graphic by Shawna Richter-Ryerson

Nebraska Mesonet to offer live-streamed views of 2017 eclipse

August 14, 2017