Spectacular Photos of Thursday's Solar Eclipse

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A rare solar eclipse graced Northern Hemisphere skies early Thursday morning.

ByNicole Bonaccorso•June 10, 2021

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A annular (partial solar) eclipse is seen as the sun rises over Scituate Light in Scituate, Mass., on June 10, 2021. Northeast states in the U.S. saw a rare eclipsed sunrise, while in other parts of the Northern Hemisphere, this annular eclipse will be seen as a visible thin outer ring of the sun's disk that is not completely covered by the smaller dark disk of the moon, a so-called "ring of fire." (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)

A rare solar eclipse graced Northern Hemisphere skies early Thursday morning.

Stargazers in the eastern half of the North America and parts of Europe were able to see the annular solar eclipse, in which the moon's silhouette covered the middle of the sun, leaving a thin "ring of fire" around the outside.

Space.com reported that the full annular eclipse was mostly visible over Canada, Greenland, Siberia and a small portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Although not all viewers could witness the full effect, photos show angles of a partial solar eclipse that are nonetheless spectacular, as the eclipse aligned with sunrise in many locations.

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The next solar eclipse occurs on Dec. 4, but totality will only be visible from Antarctica and from the nearby ocean.

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The moon is seen prior to the partial lunar eclipse from Sydney CBD on May 26, 2021, in Sydney, Australia. (Izhar Khan/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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A rare solar eclipse graced Northern Hemisphere skies early Thursday morning.

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