For close to a minute on Thursday, parts of Australia went dark as the Sun was blocked out by the Moon in the country's first solar eclipse of 2023.
For close to a minute on Thursday, parts of Australia went dark as the Sun was blocked out byas a totality from a few cities in southeast Asia and Western Australia, but was watched by tens of thousands of people around the world via livestreams .
A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes in front of the Sun, their alignment and scale so perfect it plunges the landscape below into an eerie darkness. For a few brief moments, all that can be seen of our parent star are the wisps of itsDuring an annular eclipse, on the other hand, the relative size of the Moon against the Sun permits a blazing ring of light to encircle the darkness.
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