On April 8, 2024, volunteers participating in NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie citizen science project all around the United States hurried to photograph the solar eclipse with the latest, greatest equipment, capturing groundbreaking images of the Sun’s corona.
We have spent decades looking up at the sky for threats. We built radar systems to track metal in the air and satellites to monitor launch plumes. But while we were obsessed with kinetic engagements and F-22 intercepts, the real invasion was happening …