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Rare 'Annular Solar Eclipse' Tonight

Posted by timothy on from the ring-around-the-rosy dept.

New submitter Trubacca writes "The Northern-Pacific "Ring of Fire" has an opportunity tonight to observe an entirely different "ring of fire": an annular solar eclipse where the moon, owing to its distance from the Earth, seems smaller than the apparent diameter of the sun. This results in the fiery ring for which the phenomenon takes its name. Space.com has a decent write-up on the path of the eclipse, times, and tips for safe-viewing."

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  1. NUKE the SUN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    If every country on Earth fired all of their nukes into the sun, what would be the reaction?