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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                 2023 September 24   
      
                       A Ring of Fire Sunrise Solar Eclipse   
            Video Credit: Colin Legg & Geoff Sims; Music: Peter Nanasi   
      
      Explanation: What's rising above the horizon behind those clouds? It's   
      the Sun. Most sunrises don't look like this, though, because most   
      sunrises don't include the Moon. In the early morning of 2013 May 10,   
      however, from Western Australia, the Moon was between the Earth and the   
      rising Sun. At times, it would be hard for the uninformed to understand   
      what was happening. In an annular eclipse, the Moon is too far from the   
      Earth to block the entire Sun, and at most leaves a ring of fire where   
      sunlight pours out around every edge of the Moon. The featured   
      time-lapse video also recorded the eclipse through the high refraction   
      of the Earth's atmosphere just above the horizon, making the unusual   
      rising Sun and Moon appear also flattened. As the video continues, the   
      Sun continues to rise, while the Sun and Moon begin to separate. The   
      next annular solar eclipse will occur in less than three weeks. On   
      Saturday, October 14, a ring of fire will be visible through clear   
      skies from a thin swath crossing both North and South America.   
      
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