How to Get Light to or From the Earth Without the Atmosphere and Everything Else Getting in the Way

When there's a solar eclipse, is that basically the moon casting a hand puppet on the earth? Yes. And actually, if you look at like satellite footage or fridge from space of an eclipse, you just see the moon's shadow move across the earth,. Like some kind of massive moon shadow puppet. That's so cool. All right, the next segment then is, is there a certain place on the earth that works best? I live in Cheltenham, United Kingdom at the moment. Should I consider moving? Yeah! So this is kind of the reverse problem that astronomers have, where they want to observe things in space. So the light comes down to earth, whereas what Catherine