Norton jockeyed Endeavour gently back into the umbra of the artificial eclipse, and saw the pearly splendour of the corona reappear across a background of the brighter stars.

Now, rather than waiting for eclipses to occur to study the corona, scientists make artificial eclipses in front of their cameras.

Twenty miles astern, Gossamer was trying to arrange an artificial eclipse, specially for Diana's benefit.

The Nintendo DS game "Golden Sun 3: Dark Dawn" concerns an artificial solar eclipse (the "dark dawn" of the title) caused by a tower's sudden rise.

However Krishna created an artificial eclipse by using his Sudarshana Chakra to hide the sun, forcing Kauravas to believe the day was over and Arjuna's death was imminent.

Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) which studies the structure and evolution of the corona by creating an artificial solar eclipse.

The artificial eclipse was over, and they were blasted by the tropical sun.

The darkened landscape lightened again, as the artificial eclipse came to an end.

An artificial eclipse!

These coronagraphs monitor the solar corona by using an optical system to create, in effect, an artificial solar eclipse.