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Anthony Wood

See the moon 'bite' the sun in 1st photos of September 2025 partial solar eclipse

A picture of the sun's disk with its left side blocked by the curved outline of the moon's silhouette.

The moon and sun put on a magnificent show on Sept. 21 when a dramatic partial solar eclipse darkened the sky over a swathe of the Pacific ocean, transforming the disk of our parent star into a radiant crescent.

Each partial solar eclipse takes place during the monthly new moon phase, when the lunar disk passes between Earth and sun, occulting (or hiding) its light while stopping short of perfectly blocking out its surface.

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