{"id":10760,"date":"2020-06-21T12:25:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T19:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2020-06-21T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T19:25:26","slug":"ring-of-fire-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/06\/21\/ring-of-fire-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring Of Fire Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse thrills skywatchers on longest day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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AFP photographer Sam Yeh snapped a near-perfect picture of the eclipse from Yunlin in Taiwan (AFP Photo\/Sam Yeh)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hong Kong (AFP) – Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and the Far East witnessed a dramatic “ring of fire” solar eclipse Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So-called 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They happen every year or two, and can only be seen from a narrow pathway across the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday’s eclipse arrived on the northern hemisphere’s longest day of the year — the summer solstice — when the North Pole is tilted most directly towards the Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was first visible in northeastern Republic of Congo from 5:56 local time (04:56 GMT) just a few minutes after sunrise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from AFP via Yahoo! News ‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse thrills skywatchers on longest day Hong Kong (AFP) – Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and the Far East witnessed a dramatic “ring of fire” solar eclipse Sunday. So-called annular eclipses occur when the Moon — passing between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}