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Originally Posted by north
I say sun's atmosphere. Emanation from the sun, plasmic [sic] energy and heat causes the bending of light from a star behind the sun. [Snip!]
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Wrong. Most of the Sun's atmosphere, especially the corona through which the bending of starlight is actually observed, is a better vacuum than any we've been able to make on Earth. And while there is a lot of this atmosphere, there is not enough of it to cause the bending. And to cause the observed inverse dependence on the impact parameter.