The Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, in the UK's only solar eclipse of the year.
A primary school teacher in Hyde, Greater Manchester, used a telescope to capture the partial eclipse on his handThis image of the eclipse was captured using a telescope fitted with a Herschel prism at Wymondham College in Norfolk
The next partial solar eclipse will be visible from the UK in March 2025, with a total eclipse not forecast over UK mainland until 2090. But people in the UK will be able see a partial lunar eclipse - when the Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon and creates a shadow across the lunar surface - next October.
A total eclipse of the Sun is expected to pass over North America in April 2024 and in Spain in 2026.
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