It was the yearly occasion celestial watchers got to delightin (and perhaps got a particular Johnny Cash tune stuck in your head).
It’s the solar eclipse understood as the “ring of fire,” duetothefactthat it’s the moon covering the sun, leaving light around the edges and producing an astonishing result.
The pictures from the occasion were fantastic, with particular parts of the United States — mainly the West Coast and down through New Mexico — and South America getting to witness it in individual (with the correct equipment so no one’s eyes got damaged).
Check out the spectacular, stunning pictures recorded on Saturday:
TOPSHOT – The Moon crosses in front of the Sun over Albuquerque, New Mexico, throughout an annular eclipse on October 14,2023 (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP through Getty Images)
The moon crosses in front of the sun throughout the annular solar eclipse in Bogota on October 14,2023 (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP) (Photo by JUAN BARRETO/AFP through Getty Images)
The moon crosses in front of the sun throughout the annular solar eclipse as smoke haze from fires in the Amazon jungle blankets the sky in Manaus, Amazonas State, northern Brazil, on October 14,2023 Skygazers throughout the Americas turned their dealswith upwards Saturday for a unusual celestial occasion: an annular solar eclipse. (Photo by Michael DANTAS / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP through Getty Images)
The moon crosses in front of the sun throughout the annular solar eclipse as smoke haze from fires in the Amazon jungle blankets the sky in Manaus, Amazonas State, northern Brazil, on October 14,2023 Skygazers throughout the Americas turned their dealswith upwards Saturday for a uncommon celestial occasion: an annular solar eclipse. (Photo by Michael DANTAS / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP bymeansof Getty Images)
The moon crosses in front of the sun throughout the annular solar eclipse at Mineirao Stadium, in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brasil, on October 14,2023 Skygazers throughout the Americas turned their dealswith upwards Saturday for a unusual celestial occasion: an annular solar eclipse. (Photo by DOUGLAS MAGNO / Douglas Magno / AFP) (Photo by DOUGLAS MAGNO/Douglas Magno/AFP through Getty Images)
An annular solar eclipse seen from Tatacoa Desert, Colombia, Saturday, Oct. 14,2023 The annular eclipse dimmed the skies over parts of the western U.S. and Central and South America. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
The sun, partly obstructed clouds, is seen next to the leading of a sundial throughout a “ring of fire” eclipse of the sun at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg, Texas, Saturday, Oct. 14,2023 (Joel Martinez/The Monitor through AP)
The complete annular solar eclipse is seen from Valley of the Gods outdoors Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, on Saturday, Oct. 14,2023 The eclipse was noticeable throughout most of the western United States. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle through AP)
CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK, UTAH – OCTOBER 14: A collection of pictures programs the development of the Annular Solar Eclipse on October 14, 2023 in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah. Starting at the Oregon coast and concluding on the east coast of South America an annular solar eclipse, where the moon is at its farthest from the Earth, will job a halo of sunshine around the moon’s border. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)