People watch an annular solar eclipse in Puerto San Julian, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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People take photos with their smartphones as they monitor the annular solar eclipse on Jabal Arba (Four Mountains) in Hofuf, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, December 26, 2019. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 8:Volunteers hand out eclipse glasses as people gather on the National Mall to view the partial solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 in Washington, DC. People have traveled to areas across North America that are in the "path of totality" in order to experience the eclipse today, with the next total solar eclipse that can be seen from a large part of North America won't happen until 2044. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
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Tourists ride on camels next to the Pyramid of Khufu on the Great Pyramids of Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, April 27, 2015. Local media reported Egypt's Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh al-Damaty attended the opening of two tombs that were under rennovation on Monday. One tomb belongs to the Priest of King Khufu while the other belongs to his eldest son. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
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CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS - APRIL 08: People view the start of the total eclipse on the campus of Southern Illinois University on April 08, 2024 in Carbondale, Illinois. People have travelled from around the country to the campus to view the rare celestial phenomenon. Cities around the country that are in the path of totality are experiencing a similar influx of tourists. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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White light image of the solar corona taken from Mitchell, Oregon, on 21 August 2017, by Peter Aniol, Miloslav Druckmuller and Shadia Habbal. Image was processed by M. Druckmuller. Funding for the eclipse observations was provided primarlly from a grant from NASA and partially by NSF to the University of Hawaii, S. R. Habbal, PI. Peter Aniol (ASTELCO, Germany) provided the optical systems for this white light image.
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A total solar eclipse is photographed from atop Carroll Rim Trail at Painted Hills, a unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, near Mitchell, Oregon, U.S. August 21, 2017.
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Genoese navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus (1451 - 1506) frightens the Carib natives into assisting him by predicting an eclipse of the moon, a god of theirs, Jamaica, February 29, 1504. (Image by Frederic Lewis/Getty Images)
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American astronaut Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr (1923 - 1998), Commander of NASA's upcoming Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, with the mission's insignia behind him at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 14th November 1970. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)
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