Prince Harry pursued a legal case against Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids for years, saying he wanted to hold them accountable for invasions of privacy. Frank Augstein/AP hide caption
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This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Steve Gribben/AP/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA hide caption
Images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory highlight the appearance of the sun at solar minimum (left, December 2019) versus solar maximum (right, April 2014). NASA hide caption
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Probe Gets Close To The Sun — Finds Rogue Plasma Waves And Flipping Magnetic Fields
A "blood moon" seen from western Germany during a total lunar eclipse on Sept. 28, 2015. Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Watching the eclipse? Save your eyeballs — rig up a sweet viewing set-up with some help from this video. Ryan Kellman/NPR's Skunk Bear hide caption
Eclipses aren't just natural marvels - they're still teaching us a lot about the universe. Adam Cole/NPR's Skunk Bear hide caption
A total solar eclipse is visible through the clouds as seen from Vagar in the Faroe Islands in March 2015. Eric Adams/AP hide caption
Scientists Prepare For 'The Most Beautiful Thing You Can See In The Sky'
Image of sunspot AR 2192 Alan Friedman/Randall Shivak/Averted Imagination hide caption
A bubble in space: Abell 39 marks the death of a star like the sun. Wind from the aging central star pushes into the surrounding interstellar gas, building up a dense shell that glows blue in this image. After 36 years of travel, the Voyager spacecraft is just now reaching the edge of the sun's own wind-blown bubble. WIYN/NOAO/NSF hide caption
This is a composite of 25 separate images spanning the period from April 16, 2012, to April 15, 2013. In a video, NASA has also collected three years' worth of such images and set them in a new video. NASA/SDO/AIA/S hide caption
The planet Venus is seen crossing the sun in June 2004 as photographed through a telescope at Planetarium Urania in Hove, Belgium. The earliest known observation of such a transit was in 1639 by English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks. Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP hide caption
Safety over style: In 2006, a Palestinian man and boy were careful to protect their eyes while watching a partial eclipse of the sun. The same cautions are in order for Venus' transit of the sun on Tuesday. Saif Dahlah/AFP/Getty Images hide caption