Everything You Need to Know about the Annular Solar Eclipse

Everything You Need to Know about the Annular Solar Eclipse

While it’s easy to confuse annular with annual, it doesn’t mean yearly. It means shaped like a ring. During an annular solar eclipse the moon is in front of the sun; however, it doesn’t fully block the sun like it does during a total solar eclipse. That’s why you see a “ring of fire.” Annular solar eclipses occur about once every 18 months, and they don’t occur in the same place consecutively. The last one visible from the U.S. was in 2012, and the next one that will be visible from the U.S. will be in 2039. 

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