• Annular solar eclipse seen from space HI-RES PNG [550.21 kB] Thank you for liking You have already liked this page, you can only like it once! • The Moon passed directly between the Sun and Earth on 17 February 2026, creating anannular solar eclipse. • Because the Moon was at a more distant point along its elliptical orbit around Earth, it didn’t entirely cover the Sun and left a ‘ring of fire’. • The European Space Agency’s (ESA)Proba-2satellite captured this ring from its viewpoint in space. • Flying around Earth, the spacecraft witnessed the same solar eclipse no less than four times, including this perfect ring of fire at 11:31 Universal Time. • The images were taken by the spacecraft’s SWAP extreme ultraviolet imager, at a wavelength of 17.4 nanometres.

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  • The Moon passed directly between the Sun and Earth on 17 February 2026, creating an annular solar eclipse. Because the Moon was at a more distant point along its elliptical orbit around Earth, it didn’t entirely cover the Sun and left a ‘ring of fire’. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-2 satellite captured this ring from its viewpoint in space. Flying around Earth, the spacecraft witnessed the same solar eclipse no less than four times, including this perfect ring of fire at 11:31 Universal Time. The images were taken by the spacecraft’s SWAP extreme ultraviolet imager, at a wavelength o

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