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Tourists watch the sun being blocked by the moon during a solar eclipse in the Australian outback town of Lyndhurst, around 440 miles north of Adelaide, December 4, 2002. The town is one of only four in Australia where the 26-second-long full eclipse of the sun could be seen and occurred during celebrations for the Year of the Outback. The shadow path of what’s called totality, where the ‘diamond ring’ effect becomes visible, can be seen on a path that is just 22 miles wide. (David Gray/Reuters)