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Residents of the southern hemisphere observed a total solar eclipse - a phenomenon that occurs only a few times a century. What's more, this eclipse is a particularly rare one: a hybrid one. It has been named the Ningaloo eclipse, after the UNESCO World Heritage-listed coast of Ningaloo in western Australia.
Solar eclipses occur when the Sun, Moon and Earth line up. The way they line up, as well as the curvature of the Earth's surface, determines whether an eclipse will be total or partial as the moon's shadow moves across the globe.
A hybrid solar eclipse is a combination of total and partial, when the disk of the Moon completely covers the Sun and only the outer solar edging is visible around the dark circle.
The eclipse began in the Indian Ocean at dawn and ended in the Pacific Ocean at sunset. At the beginning and at the end of the cycle it was ring-shaped, in the middle it was full.
Observers in different countries saw different phases of the hybrid solar eclipse.
The eclipse did not last long - only about 2 minutes. The best view of it opened up to residents of western Australia, East Timor and western New Guinea.
The best place to watch the eclipse is the Exmouth Peninsula in Western Australia, where tens of thousands of people from all over the world gathered.
When the sky darkened over Exmouth, the temperature dropped noticeably and the stars appeared, the crowd erupted in enthusiastic cheers. Witnesses later told reporters that it was like a dream, and even a religious ecstasy. In total, millions of people around the world watched this incredible astronomical event.
According to scientists, this extremely rare phenomenon will occur only seven times in the 21st century. The first hybrid solar eclipse of the twenty-first century occurred in November 2013. The next eclipse is due in 2031.
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