A solar eclipse swept across the Atlantic Ocean on Friday with the moon set to block out the sun for a few thousand sky gazers on remote islands with millions more in Europe, Africa and Asia getting a partial celestial show.
The moon’s shadow fell south of Greenland at 0741 GMT and sped eastwards towards the Faroe Islands and the Norwegian Arctic islands of Svalbard, where hotels have been sold out for years to fans of the rare total eclipse.
Take a look at some of the amazing photos from across Europe and Africa.
Schoolchildren at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, as people gather to try to see the solar eclipse in London on Friday. In UK’s capital, thick cloud cover obscured a view of the sun. (Photo: AP/Tim Ireland)
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European Space Agency’s Sun-watching Proba-2 used its SWAP imager to capture the Moon passing in front of the Sun in a near-totality. SWAP views the solar disc at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths to capture the turbulent surface of the Sun and its swirling corona. (Courtesy: ESA)
A combination photo shows the different phases of the total solar eclipse as it occurred over Longyearbyen inn Svalbard. (Photo: Reuters/Jon Olav Nesvold/NTB scanpix)
A man looks up to view a partial solar eclipse around the Giza Pyramids, on the outskirts of Cairo, March 20, 2015. A partial eclipse was visible on Friday, the first day of northern spring, across parts of Africa, Europe and Asia. The total eclipse of the sun was only visable in the Faroe Islands and the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh -
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