Cheers and shouts of joy are erupting as a rare “ring of fire” eclipse of the sun makes its way across the Americas
CLAIRE RUSH and KATIE OYANViewers use special glasses to watch from San Antonio, as the moon moves in front of the sun during an annular solar eclipse, or ring of fire, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M..
Saturday’s path: Oregon, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Texas in the U.S., with a sliver of California, Arizona and Colorado. Next: Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Brazil. Much of the rest of the Western Hemisphere gets a partial eclipse.livestreamed itIn Mexico, hundreds of people filed into the planetarium in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun to watch the eclipse.
The Maya — who called eclipses “broken sun” — may have used dark volcanic glass to protect their eyes, said archeologist Arturo Montero of Tepeyac University in Mexico City. For the small towns and cities along the path, there was a mix of excitement, worries about the weather and concerns they’d be overwhelmed by visitors flocking to see the annular solar eclipse.
The dance between the sun and moon made for a perfect golden ring while the sky went dark over the desert.
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