An Eclipse helped us discover helium!
Eclipses helped us discover helium!
The only way to safely observe the suns corona is during an eclipse - by observing the corona during this time, a scientist discovered the chemical composition of this ring of light. He named this new element 'helium', from the Greek word for sun (helois).
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