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    9 Inventive Solar Eclipse Photos From Mashable Readers

    By Keith Kaplan | Mashable – Mon, May 21, 2012

    Bradley Mellon

    Solar eclipse as seen from El Centro, California

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    Over the weekend, an astounding astronomical phenominon occurred: an annular solar eclipse. This type of eclipse, which happens less than once a year, occurs when the Earth's moon crosses paths with the sun to create the effect of a spectacular glowing ring. This is due to the size of the moon compared to the size of the sun.

    Only people in a certain geographic area get to glimpse each of these rare phenomena. This time, people in Japan, California, Nevada, southern Utah, northern Arizona, and New Mexico were granted the best view.

    We asked Mashable readers to submit their best picture of the solar eclipse. We received very inventive photo submissions from across the world.

    Check out some of our favorite solar eclipse photos that you sent us, and let us know in the comments what you thought of the eclipse.

    This story originally published on Mashable here.

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