The Delight of Polarized Light

Image of the eclipsed Sun from Citizen CATE 2024 (Image credit: Ritesh Patel et al 2023)

These resources guide you to appreciate polarized light in our everyday environments, and show how both the NASA PUNCH Mission and the Citizen CATE 2024 Experiment ground-based telescopes are using polarized light to study the structure of the solar corona and the solar wind.

Image credit: Ritesh Patel et al 2023

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