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A “ring of fire” replaced the sun over cities in South America and parts of Africa Sunday morning as the Annular Solar Eclipse played out in the skies. 

The moon passed in front of the sun, leaving a narrow ring of light in the dark sky.

The eclipse began "at the southern tip of South America, first making landfall in Chile and passing through Argentina, before traveling over the Atlantic Ocean toward Africa," according to online astronomy service Slooh. 

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About 300 stargazers gathered outside the city of Sarmiento in Argentina to see the phenomenon, DW.com reports. 

This event isn’t considered a total eclipse, as the moon was too far away in its monthly orbit to cover the sun completely. However, the moon’s path in front of the sun was dead-on and, at mid-eclipse, an outer edge of the sun appeared briefly around the moon, according to EarthSky.org. 

Only those in the Southern Hemisphere in the shadow path were able to see this eclipse.

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