If light dosen’t curve then how can you see it when there is an eclipse?

Question: If light dosen't curve then how can you see it when there is an eclipse?
- Keywords:
  eclipse,
  light,
  lunar,
  solar,
  sun
Asked by wheresmypistol to Alex, Jools, Lynz, Matt, Rika on 16 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by lukec.
- Lyndsey Fox answered on 15 Jun 2011:
  
  Very good question!
  During a total solar eclipse some parts of the Sun that we normally can’t see become visible,including the corona (the outermost layer of the sun’s atmosphere). The corona is mostly X-ray emissions (which we can’t see), but light from the photosphere is scattered by the loose electrons in the corona’s plasma and we can see this. So this is the light you see.
- Matthew Dickinson answered on 16 Jun 2011:
  
  As far as I was awaire there is some research going to study the bending of light, or at least thats what I have seen in forcus magazine

scienceblogger117 commented on 17 Jun 2011:

I think that there may be clouds of microscopic reflective particles around the sun.

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Question: If light dosen't curve then how can you see it when there is an eclipse?