Astronaut taking eclipse of the Earth from the ISS Space Station

From the space station of the American International Astronaut Christopher Cassidy has captured an image of the annular eclipse that took place yesterday (June 21).

"It was an impressive sight to see the annular eclipse appear on the starboard side (space station) when we flew over to China this morning," Cassidy wrote on his Twitter page.

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The astronaut published four photographs of eclipse shadows projected onto the Earth's surface.

Currently working on the ISS Station are two Russian astronauts, Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, and three American astronauts Cassidy, Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken.

The annular eclipse is the name of the maximum phase of this eclipse, which occurs when the Earth is closest to the Sun at the same time the Moon is furthest away from the Earth. Therefore, the Moon is not large enough to completely cover the Sun. Even at the time of the largest cover, the outer edge of the Sun is still present forming a beautiful ring of annular, as the name of eclipse.

Among the eclipse types, the ring eclipse is considered to be more noticeable because its period of repetition takes quite long time.

In Vietnam, there have been many places to observe this strange astronomical phenomenon. In Hanoi, for example, partial solar eclipse was observed with a maximum cover of 71% at 1455.

The eclipse begins at 13:16 when the Moon begins to touch the edge of the Sun, reaching its peak at 14:55 when the Moon obscures 72% of the Sun, and ends at 16:18 when the Moon leaves the edge. God.