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Spartan2470 t1_je0t2mg wrote

Here are higher quality versions of these images. Credit to the photographer, Elias Chasiotis, who took this on December 26, 2019 in Al Wakrah, Qatar.

According to NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day:

> Here, after initial cloudiness, the Sun appeared to rise in two pieces and during partial eclipse, causing the photographer to describe it as the most stunning sunrise of his life. The dark circle near the top of the atmospherically-reddened Sun is the Moon -- but so is the dark peak just below it. This is because along the way, the Earth's atmosphere had a layer of unusually warm air over the sea which acted like a gigantic lens and created a second image. For a normal sunrise or sunset, this rare phenomenon of atmospheric optics is known as the Etruscan vase effect. The featured picture was captured two mornings ago from Al Wakrah, Qatar. Some observers in a narrow band of Earth to the east were able to see a full annular solar eclipse -- where the Moon appears completely surrounded by the background Sun in a ring of fire.

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Befuddled_Cultist t1_je2h961 wrote

Sailors: The end is nigh!

Sailors like a few minutes later: Haha, okay, you got me.

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Miguenzo OP t1_je2v0ry wrote

Is it me or does it look like a two-piece bikini?

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