Spacecraft captured annular solar eclipse

Tatyana Aksyutina

Ufa City Planetarium published an image of an annular solar eclipse. It was taken by the Proba-2 spacecraft of the European Space Agency.
As experts explained, on February 17, an annular solar eclipse occurred, in which the apparent diameter of the lunar disk is smaller than the solar one, and the Moon does not completely cover the Sun – it is surrounded by a fiery solar ring.
The phases of the eclipse were observed only in Antarctica, and none of Earth's inhabitants managed to capture it.

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