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Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake
(Colorado Mountain College) & Linda Westlake
Explanation:
It was a typical Texas sunset except that most of the Sun was missing.
The location of the missing piece of the Sun was not a mystery -- it was
behind the Moon.
Featured here is one of the
more interesting images
taken of a partial solar eclipse that occurred in 2012, capturing a temporarily crescent
Sun setting in a reddened sky behind brush and a windmill.
The image was taken about 20 miles west of Sundown,
Texas, USA, just after the
ring of fire effect was broken by the
Moon moving away
from the center of the Sun.
Today a new
partial
solar
eclipse of the Sun will be visible from Earth.
Unfortunately for people who live in Texas, today's
eclipse
can only be seen from southern Africa and Antarctica.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
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