On May 20, if you are lucky enough to be in the right place (and you have the right tools to do so safely), an annular solar eclipse will be observable. Annular solar eclipses occur when the sun and moon are directly aligned and the moon is near it’s apogee in it’s elliptical orbit. The moon thus appears to be a smaller disk than the sun, which shows around the moon as an annulus, or very bright ring. Making up only about one third of solar eclipses, these still-spectacular events do not show the sun’s corona like total eclipses.
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