Solar eclipse

MINAMISOMA, Japan - An annular solar eclipse is observed at a junior high school in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, in a photo taken through a dark filter at 7:39 a.m. on May 21, 2012. Part of the ring looks like beads due to unevenness of the moon surface in the Baily's beads phenomenon.

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