Skygazers across a broad swathe of the Northern Hemisphere see partial solar eclipse

By AFP 29 March 2025, 2:34 pm

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This photograph shows a partial solar eclipse seen from Nantes on March 29, 2025 (Loic VENANCE / AFP)

Skygazers across a broad swathe of the Northern Hemisphere watch as the Moon takes a bite out of the Sun as a partial solar eclipse sweeps from eastern Canada to Siberia.

The partial eclipse, which is the first of the year and the 17th this century, will last around four hours from 0850 GMT to 1243 GMT.

Eclipses occur when the Sun, Moon and Earth all line up. When they perfectly align for a total solar eclipse, the Moon fully blots out the Sun’s disc, creating an eerie twilight here on Earth.

But that did not happen during today’s partial eclipse, which instead turned the Sun into a crescent.