Rare Midnight Solar Eclipse Caught In the Arctic 24
Tyketto writes "Wired Magazine has an article posted about a solar eclipse occurring overnight in the Arctic and Scandinavian regions over the night of June 1st and 2nd. They explain: 'During the Arctic summer, the sun dips low on the horizon but never sets. That means a solar eclipse is theoretically possible at any time. But this week's eclipse was the first visible from Scandinavia since 2000, and the deepest since 1985. The next one won't be for another 73 years.' NASA has the details, while NPR also has a small blurb on it, with Tromsø, Norway resident Rhys Jones adding some pictures to Flickr, and SpaceWeather putting together a gallery."
Re:Scandinavia!? (Score:4, Informative)
Actually Scandinavia as a noun is a perfectly valid use of the word. [wikimedia.org]
Just like Oceania is used to describe the regions around the country of Australia which are not part of the country of Australia but border on the continent of Australasia and the Pacific Region.
One may say it's also similar to the Arctic [wikimedia.org]. Also not a country but a perfectly valid noun describing a region.