koehn: oh, my. jasmine: you said the planet, we can see it. dr. koehn: yeah. we've got venus to the one side, we've got jupiter up here to the left of the sun. and there is the corona. jasmine: absolutely beautiful. dr. koehn: that is spectacular. jasmine: you said this is happening during what we call a solar -- does that mean the sun is stronger right now than normal got dr. koehn: not so much stronger come of a more dynamic. the magnetic fields on the sign is more chaotic, more disorganized. you see random durations, for just what is leaving the sun. that is spectacular. jasmine: all right, we are reaching that halfway mark already, two minutes into totality. dr. koehn: there is even just a hint of a diamond ring down at the bottom. jasmine: i can see it. yeah. we are looking at a diamond ring from arkansas, the diamond state. now, patrick, of course, as we have been talking about it, this is a helio physics big year, you are a helio physics extraordinaire from washington, d.c. dr. koehn: the helio physics big year started out in october, and we take a caus