Today many places in east Asia and western America got to see this annular eclipse. Usually when there is a solar eclipse the moon can entirely block the sun, but at the moment the moon is at its farthest from the Earth so it is not able to block all the son and leaves a ring (an annulus) of sunlight around the black centre. It is quite a sight.
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