Eclipse glasses are needed to safely view the rare sight.
An annular solar eclipse from January 2010 in Kaifeng, Henan Province of China. Photo: Visual China Group via Getty ImagesAn annular solar eclipse — also known as a "ring of fire" eclipse — will darken skies above a narrow swath of the country stretching from the coast of Oregon to the Texas Gulf Coast, according toMany others in the continental U.S. and parts of Alaska who aren't in the line of the annular eclipse will have the chance to see a partial solar eclipse.
This causes the Moon to appear as a "dark disk on top of a larger, bright disk," creating the "ring of fire" effect, NASA said.happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth but the three don't perfectly line up. The Great American Eclipse has maps of the path of the October annular solar eclipse. Map: Courtesy of Michael Zeiler,For areas in the path of annularity,
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