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Credit & Copyright: Stephen Bedingfield
Explanation:
What kind of eclipse is this?
On Sunday, visible in parts of Earth's southern hemisphere, the Moon blocked
part of the Sun during a
partial solar eclipse.
In some locations, though, the effect was a rare type of partial
eclipse called an
annular eclipse.
There, since
the Moon
is too far from the Earth to block the entire Sun,
sunlight streamed around the edges of the Moon creating a
"ring of fire".
At some times, though, the effect was a rare type of
annular eclipse.
Then, an edge of
the Moon nearly aligned with an edge of the Sun,
allowing sunlight to stream through only low areas on the Moon.
Called a "Baily's bead"
or a "diamond ring", this doubly rare effect was captured Sunday in the feature photograph
from
Chubut,
Argentina, in
South America.
This summer a
total
solar
eclipse will swoop across
North America.
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