Eclipse science: From galloping giraffes to solar wisps

Mike Newchurch, left, professor of atmospheric chemistry at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and graduate student Paula Tucker prepare a weather balloon before releasing it to perform research during the solar eclipse Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, on the Orchard Dale historical farm near Hopkinsville, Ky. The location, which is in the path of totality, is also at the point of greatest intensity. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) The Associated Press

This eight picture combo shows the path of the sun during a total eclipse by the moon Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, near Redmond, Ore. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) The Associated Press

U.S. Air Force Col. Mark Henderson of Mississippi videoing giraffes at Nashville Zoo on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in early stages of the eclipse in Nashville, Tenn. Henderson would later send information to scientists studying animal reaction. (AP Photo/Seth Borenstein) The Associated Press

Jim Cleveland, of Shelbyville, Ky., sets up a camera at his campsite at sunrise as he prepares for the solar eclipse Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, on the Orchard Dale historical farm near Hopkinsville, Ky. The location, which is in the path of totality, is also at the point of greatest intensity. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) The Associated Press

The International Space Station is silhouetted against the sun during a partial solar eclipse Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, as seen from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, in Washington. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP) The Associated Press

Birds begin to have strange flight patterns as the eclipse heads into totality over Bald Mountain, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (Drew Nash/The Times-News via AP) The Associated Press