Unusual sky phenomenon: A “ring of fire”

The solar eclipse was most clearly visible over a line that ran from the western United States through Mexico and Colombia to northern Brazil. The short-lived phenomenon was visible for just under a minute in every single place on Earth, but attracted thousands to gaze skyward. – You cannot prepare for the feeling when the “ring of fire” comes, when it does, you realize that it is something you only experience a few times in your life, says Canadian Kirby James, who experienced the phenomenon in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to AP . The ring forms when the moon is too far from Earth to cover the entire solar disk and the sun turns into a narrow, ring-shaped streak.

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