'Ring of fire' solar eclipse thrills skywatchers in Africa and Asia | The Japan Times
Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and the Far East witnessed Sunday a dramatic "ring of fire" solar eclipse.
Annular eclipses occur when the moon passing between Earth and the sun is not quite close enough to our planet to completely obscure sunlight, leaving a thin ring of the solar disc visible.
