'Death Star' over New York: what a unique solar eclipse looked like over the city

Perhaps due to the fact that New York never sleeps and constantly shines, its residents often miss the opportunity to see certain natural phenomena associated with the luminaries. But on the morning of June 10, it was just the opposite: New York was the epicenter of a stunning rare solar eclipse.

NASA explainsthat an event known as an annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon is at the farthest point from the Earth, so its passage in front of the Sun does not completely block the star's visibility, but leaves a ring of light around the edges or turns the Sun into a truncated circle, reminiscent of the Death Star from Star Wars. In particular, the Sun rose over New York in the shape of a crescent; 73% of the solar disk was covered by the moon passing between the Earth and the Sun.

Around 5:30 am on June 10th, people in different parts of New York and most of the US East Coast could observe this fascinating phenomenon. According to meteorologist Joe Rao, there have been only two such eclipses in the New York area over the past 150 years - in September 1875 and October 1959.

If you overslept it or missed it for some other reason, we offer you some photos and videos.