“Smiling” Solar Eclipse
A solar eclipse turns the disk of the sun into a wide orange grin over Gumaca in the Philippines on Monday morning, local time. Although the sun is only minimally covered in this picture, the so-called annular eclipse went on to create a “ring of fire” for sky-watchers in parts of Asia and the U.S. West.Photograph by Bullit Marquez, AP
Chain of Events
A combination of pictures shows the stages of Monday’s annular solar eclipse, as seen from Tokyo. During the eclipse, the moon’s shadow crossed over Japan around 7:35 a.m. Monday, local time. Photograph by Kazuhiro Nogikazuhiro Nogi, AFP/Getty Images
The dark moon leaves only a thin circle of silver light from the sun during the annular eclipse, as seen from Utsunomiya, Japan, on Monday. Photograph by Franck Robichon, European Pressphoto Agency
Burning Ring of Fire
An eclipsed sun sinks toward the horizon near oil rigs north of Odessa, Texas, on Sunday evening. Photograph by Albert Cesare, Odessa American/AP
Sun in Shadow
Hands holding a pair of binoculars cast an unusual shadow—complete with twin views of the solar eclipse—as seen in Sacramento, California, on Sunday. Photograph by Randy Pench, Sacramento Bee/Zuma Press
Pictures via National Geographic.
