The World's Most Powerful Solar Telescope this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society,

with more of the human adventure across our solar

system and beyond.

We'll climb into the mountains of Southern California to visit a telescope that sits in the

middle of a lake, and and will meet the man whose name

is now on that great instrument.

Bill Nye is back with lots to cover in our brief conversation.

The same goes for Bruce Betts, who wishes curiosity a happy fifth

anniversary on Mars in this week's What's Up segment. Speaking of the Sun,

senior editor Emily Lockwala is ready to throw a little light on a big event coming later this month.

Emily a little Eclipse gift from you to your many readers at planetary.org where you have posted

this blog about a really simple and most important

a very safe way for people to view the great American eclipse coming August 21st.

Or any eclipse for that matter. I was motivated to write this post because I've

seen so much emphasis on being in a place in the United States where you can see totality

and on, you know, buying the right eclipse glasses and equipment and

filters and whatnot and for me I'm more interested in educating as many people as

I can and not everybody's going to be able to travel so that most people will be

seeing a partial

eclipse and not everybody will have planned ahead and bought a eclipse

safe eclipse sunglasses so I like this activity because it is incredibly cheap most

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