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An aircraft flies past the sun during a solar eclipse in New Delhi July 22
Vietnamese student Dang Anh Tuan shows an image of the eclipse at an observatory at Hanoi National University of Education.
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Koji Sasahara / APVisitors look up at the Milky Way at a campsite set up at Tatsugo on Japan's southern island of Amami Oshima on July 21. The campers converged on Tatsugo to witness the total solar eclipse on July 22.
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Eclipse darkens sky over Asia
The sun's delicate corona and a flash of bright sunlight are visible in this view of the July 22 solar eclipse, as observed from a ship sailing south of Tokyo. The "diamond ring" effect occurs just as the total phase of theeclipse is beginning or ending. July 22: The longest solar eclipse of this century turned the sky over parts of Asia dark for more than six minutes earlier today. TODAY’s Ann Curry reports.
A combo photograph shows the partial solar eclipse that was seen from Seoul, South Korea. The partial phase began at 9:34 a.m. and reached its peak at 10:50 a.m. local time when the moon covered nearly 80 percent of the sun.
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Hindu holy men watch the solar eclipse of July 22, 2009, through specially designed viewing glasses in Allahabad, India. The track of the total eclipse ran through a wide swath of Asia, from India to China, across southern Japanese islands and out into the Pacific. It was the longest-lasting total eclipse of the 21st century
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A total solar eclipse darkens the skies in Chongqing municipality in China.
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