People point to the Sun as clouds obscure eclipse

AMAMI, Japan - People look at the Sun amid thick cloud cover at 10:58 a.m., shortly after the start of the total solar eclipse on Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, on July 22. Many people in the area were unable to see the first total solar eclipse over Japan in 46 years due to bad weather.

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