Incredible photos capture 'Ring of Fire' in the final solar eclipse of 2019
Break out the Johnny Cash and your best paper sunglasses for the final solar eclipse of the year, and the decade.
An annular solar eclipse traveled over Indonesia and surrounding regions on Dec. 26, visible in areas stretching from Saudi Arabia to Guam.
The phenomenon is also known as a "ring of fire" eclipse — occurring when the moon doesn't completely cover the sun's disk, meaning that instead of a total blackout, the slightly smaller shadow is surrounded by a bright circle of light when it's centered.
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You can see the path of the moon's shadow across Asia in the below tweet from NOAA:
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Photographers from Guam and Indonesia to Singapore and the Middle East captured amazing images of the phenomenon.
The next solar eclipse is another annular one, and will occur in June 2020, visible from parts of Africa, India, Pakistan, and China.
Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.
