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Strange & beautiful shadows created by the annular solar eclipse

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Via LaughingSquid, check out this video by Mark Day of the strange and beautiful shadows created by the annular solar eclipse on May 20th, 2012. And via KQED, the ring of fire — “when the Moon’sĀ apparent diameterĀ is smaller than the Sun, causing the Sun to look like anĀ annulusĀ (ring), blocking most of the Sun’s light” — as seen fromĀ Albuquerque, New Mexico.Ā 

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