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Members of a Lick Observatory expedition in Australia prepare to film a total solar eclipse on October 21, 1922. By measuring the positions of stars that appeared near the eclipsed Sun, the astronomers confirmed a 1919 finding that demonstrated that Albert Einstein's theory of gravity, known as General Relativity, was correct. [Special Collections and Archives, University Library, UC Santa Cruz]

Scientists prepare to film a 1922 solar eclipse to test Einstein's theory of gravity
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