Rare ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse to dim Africa, Asia via TheCitizen_News
Annular eclipses occur when the Moon is not close enough to Earth to completely obscure sunlight, leaving a thin ring of the solar disc visible. GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File/DAVID MCNEW
The “ring of fire” will first be seen in northeastern Republic of Congo at 5:56 local time just a few minutes after sunrise.Annular solar eclipse. AFP/John SAEKI “The annular eclipse is visible from about two percent of Earth surface,” Florent Delefie, an astronomer and the Paris Observatory, told AFP.
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