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We've published a number of photos from today's annular eclipse that happened in Asia and the western US, many of which show telephoto views of the moon's disk obscuring part of the sun. Take a step back with this panorama created by msnbc.com's John Brecher, stitched together from several images, to see some of the other sights that surround you during a solar eclipse: note the ring-shaped shadows on the white van made by light filtering through the trees, the reduced-contrast quality of the sunlight that's been shaped by the moon's edges, and the reactions of people as they use various optics to observe the phenomenon.
Click here to see the above image fullscreen.
Read all about today's eclipse in this piece by Alan Boyle in Cosmic Log.
You can see more images from this and earlier eclipses in PhotoBlog, and more panoramic images from other news stories.
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How many endangered Lassen Lava Field Boulder Beetles were crushed underfoot by those tourists? Haven't they sense enough to know that human beings belong on paved roads and in cities, not out in the natural habitat of endangered bugs? Where were Big Sis and her DHS storm troopers while this rape of the natural world was going on? Probably groping the genitals of some 2 year-old kid on his way to Disney World with his mom and dad.
your an idiot.
release the cracken! how many virgins were spared?