In today's image, we see an image from the annular solar eclipse from this past week. Here, the Moon passes in front of the Sun, but the Moon appears slightly smaller than the Sun because of its distance and is unable to completely block out the Sun's light. This leaves a ring or annulus around the Sun.

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