'Ring Of Fire' Eclipse Sweeps Across Skies In Middle East And Southeast Asia
Instead of the sun's full disk of fire, or a crescent of light, viewers in areas of complete annularity saw a fiery halo around the moon.
by Bill Chappell
Dec 26, 2019
2 minutes
From the Middle East to Southeast Asia, people looked skyward for a chance to see an annular eclipse on Thursday, as the unusual celestial event took place over a long but thin band of the world. The striking "ring of fire" phenomenon — with the moon blotting out all but a sliver of the sun — began
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