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August 1, 2008—During Friday morning's rare total solar eclipse, light from the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, makes silhouettes of a man and camel in China's Gansu Province (solar eclipse facts).

A plane flies in front of the sun and over Upminster, U.K. during the partial eclipse on August 1, 2008. Unlike ancient Chinese, the pilots were unlikely to have been on the lookout for scaly sky monsters.

Using a special filter, a man observes a partial solar eclipse in Riga, Latvia on August 1, 2008.

—Photograph by Heribert Proepper/AP

A girl safely watches a partial solar eclipse through a telescope in Kiel, Germany, on Friday, August 1, 2008.

—Photograph by David Gray/Reuters

Photos show the different stages of a solar eclipse above the Jiayuguan fortress along the Great Wall of China on August 1, 2008.

—Photograph by David Gray/Reuters

A total solar eclipse darkens China's 14th-century Jiayuguan fortress in Gansu Province on August 1, 2008.

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These second 7 pictures are from this gallery. (from various time)


—Photograph by Burhan Ozbilici/AP

Turkish sky-watchers and tourists enjoy a historic event from an equally historic vantage point. On March 29, 2006, a total solar eclipse appeared in the skies above the Roman theater in Side, Antalya. A total eclipse is visible only within a thin strip of land covered by the moon's shadow, called the "path of totality," which stretches around the globe.


—Photograph by Vadim Ghirda/AP
A shadowy moon moves across the face of the sun during a cloudy 2006 total solar eclipse in Bucharest, Romania.

—Photograph by Omar Torres/AFP/Getty Images

A multiple-exposure image shows the many phases of a total solar eclipse as seen from Xochicalco, Mexico, on July 11, 1991.


—Photograph by Jorge Silva/Reuters

The sun's fiery face reappears as a rare hybrid solar eclipse draws to a close in Macigual, Venezuela. During this 2005 event only about 1,500 people worldwide saw a total solar eclipse, which was visible in largely uninhabited regions of the Pacific Ocean.
—Photograph by Radu Sigheti/Reuters

A Samburu woman uses a piece of smoked glass to gaze at an annular solar eclipse at Archer's Post, Nairobi, on October 3, 2005.

—Photograph by David Gray/Reuters
Onlookers gaze at the "diamond ring" produced during a total solar eclipse near Lyndhurst, Australia. The dramatic visual effect, a favorite of eclipse aficionados, occurred in December 2002 just at the moment when 26 seconds of totality came to a close and the sun began to reappear.