Catch a glimpse of this total eclipse that happened over Western Australia on Thursday. Read more on why this particular type of eclipse is so rare:
is similar, but occurs when the moon is slightly smaller in the sky due to being further away from the Earth, leaving more of the sun visible around the circumference in a"ring of fire", Space.com explains.A hybrid solar eclipse is a rare combination of the two, occurring in only 3.1 percent of solar eclipses in the 21st century, and can be seen transitioning between the two types over the course of the eclipse.data shows that in the 5,000 years between 2000 BCE to 3000 CE, only 4.
These are rare because of the angle of the moon's shadow on the Earth's curved surface and how when the moon is further away from the Earth, the eclipse can appear annular at some points on its path, and total at others. The area of the total eclipse occurs during the middle of the shadow's path, due to that area of the Earth's surface being ever so slightly closer to the moon, according to Space.com.
Stock composite image of the sun during an annular solar eclipse, shot from Tamil Nadu, India. The"ring of fire" can be seen during the totality."Roughly speaking, the geometry has to be such that a total eclipse happens," Amitabh Virmani, an associate professor of astrophysics at Chennai Mathematical Institute in India, told.
In Thursday's eclipse, the portions of its path near sunrise and sunset will appear annular, beginning over the Indian Ocean, transitioning to a total eclipse over the ocean and appearing as a total eclipse over western Australia, before changing back to appearing annular over the South Pacific.
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