![]() To avoid misleading people we should all probably call it a “ ring of light.”Īn annular solar eclipse is, after all, a pretty kind of partial solar eclipse. For example, Fox News (which also linked to one of my reports) says that: “Sky-gazers in viewing areas will be able to see a fiery ring around the sun for up to one minute.”Ī colleague on Forbes also likens it to “something out of a “Lord of the Rings” flick.”įine, but we’re talking about sunlight here, not fire! There is no fire spitting out from around the Moon-it’s light. ALEJANDRO PAGNI/AFP via Getty Images AFP via Getty Images 4 – A ‘ring of fire’ can be seenĪll journalists are guilty of using this colloquial term for an annular solar eclipse-including myself-but it doesn’t bear much scrutiny. Sarmiento, Chubut province, 1600 kilometres south of Buenos Aires on February 26, 2017. This combination of photos shows an annular solar eclipse, as seen from the Estancia El Muster, near. ![]() However, look at the eclipse calendar and you can see that they definitely don’t occur every year: Annular solar eclipses 2017-2030 Besides, the confusion comes from the fact that there was a near-identical eclipse on Christmas Day 2019, and there’s another one in just under a year on June 10, 2021. I’m not going to be too hard on House Beautiful, which kindly cited my recent article about the eclipse in Forbes, and generally it’s a good report. “This weekend, another incredible celestial event will hit: an annual “ring of fire” solar eclipse.”Īnnular means annulus, “little ring” in Latin. That will happen next on Decemas seen from a narrow “path of totality” through Chile and Argentina. ![]() That’s when the whole of the Sun is blocked by the Moon.
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