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Brandon Specktor

Totality! See incredible photos ofthe Aug. 12 total solar eclipse from across Europe

The sun looks like a white diamond ring behind the moon in this total solar eclipse image.

The first photos from yesterday's total solar eclipse are here, and they're spectacular.

Captured Wednesday (Aug. 12) by NASA scientists during a special eclipse livestream from Spain, the images show the moon completely blocking the visible surface of the sun, plunging the daytime sky into twilight for roughly 90 seconds and allowing our star's elusive corona (its wispy outer atmosphere) to shine through.

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