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The machine, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), blasts protons against each other to crack them open and study the subatomic particles they contain.

During next month's eclipse, the team of scientists will attempt to prove the existence of dark matter, which is estimated to make up about 28 percent of the universe, although it has never been known. view.

While the LHC typically runs for a month each year, it has been two years since it was brought back into operation after being shut down during the 2022 European energy crisis.

Last week, scientists revealed that a "ghost" structure had been discovered inside the particle collider.

Popular X account "Concerned Citizen" commented on CERN's solar eclipse tests and also noted that NASA will launch rockets named after an Egyptian serpentine deity during the event.

NASA's mission, known as Atmospheric Perturbations Around the Path of the Eclipse (APEP), was named in honor of the "serpent deity of ancient Egyptian mythology," who was a "nemesis of the divinity of the Sun, Ra”.

“It is said that Apep pursued Ra and, from time to time, almost consumed him, causing an eclipse,” reads the NASA website.

According to Ancient Egypt Online, “Apep was the ancient Egyptian spirit of evil, darkness and destruction. As the archenemy of the sun god Ra, he was a malevolent force that could never be entirely defeated. Every night, as the sun passed through the underworld (or sky), its roar filled the air and it launched its attack.”

The NASA project aims to study how the solar eclipse, by causing a sudden decrease in sunlight, affects Earth's upper atmosphere.

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