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Sponsored by Swinburne Astronomy Online at http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/sao/ Join +Fraser Cain  and +Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stick around to answer your questions about space and astronomy.  Astronomy Cast Ep. 371: Eddington Eclipse Experiment At the turn of the 20th Century, Einstein's theory of relativity stunned the physics world, but the experimental evidence needed to be found. And so, in 1919, another respected astronomer, Arthur Eddington, observed the deflection of stars by the gravity of the Sun during a solar eclipse. Here's the story of that famous experiment.