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\textit{Oh, an empty article!} \textit{Authorea fellow and Yale scientist Fabio Del Sordo went for the adventure of a lifetime. Chasing one of the most inaccessible solar eclipses of the century, he went to Svalbard, a group of remote arctic islands midway between continental Norway and the North Pole.}  You can get Some months ago, I was having a chat with a fellow astrophysicist. 2015 would have been a quite busy year for me, due to a combination of science projects, outreach with the GalileoMobile Constellation and travels.   At that time I had recently  started a postdoc at Yale, in the research group led  by \textbf{double clicking} John Wettlaufer, an expert on sea ice and the Arctic. Since many years I felt the urge of visiting the northernmost area of the Earth, and I started fulfilling  this text block and begin editing. You can also click the \textbf{Insert} button below to add new block elements. Or you can \textbf{drag need during my PhD in Stockholm, with travels to Lapland and the north western Norvegian coastine. The Arctic, though, is a different story were, at that time, a vague but intriguing place, oftentimes feeding my imagination.  During this postdoc, I thought, I will have to visit Svalbard, connecting my travel to a research project. the idea behind any research I start is pretty much always the same: I study it because it fascinates me. The Arctic is full of phenomena that I cannot see they could not trigger a deep interest. The sea ice, constantly freezing  and drop melting, harbors amazing things like frozen flowers, as well as life in extreme conditions; the upper atmosphere hosts spectacles like Northern Lights.  Nevertheless, I am almost unable to organize a journey in absence of  an image} right onto initial spark deciding when this is going to happen. In  this text. Happy writing! case, the fire was lit during the chat I was mentioned.  "I would like to travel to Svalbard sooner or later" - I said.  "For the Eclipse, you mean?"  "WoW, is there an eclipse at Svalbard? For real?"  I did probably read about this eclipse many years ago, checking an old book of mine I have in my bookshelf in my parent's house, but I had then hidden the information too well to remember it. Also, some years ago, the possibility to attend the occurrence of an Eclipse in the Arctic was perhaps too remote to be worth to be remembered. Not now, though.  Within a few days I had my flights booked and started planning my journey, during which I would have hopefully met the Sun and the Moon in the same spot of the sky.  Svalbard.  UNIS is the world's northernmost institution for higher education and research, located in Longyearbyen, in Spitsbergen island.  There's plenty of science to be investigated during an eclipse. One of the most relevant historical examples is the measurement of the deflection of light by the Sun, performed by Sir Arthur Eddington in 1919 during a total solar eclipse. Such experiment demonstrated that the sun was indeed deflecting the light, as some   Science during the Eclipse  Biology measurements  Aurora. KHO observatory  daytime aurora