How to see the partial solar eclipse and sun's ‘devil horns’ today

Partial solar eclipse visible from the UK

People across the UK were able to witness a partial solar eclipse this morning, as the moon passed between the Earth and the sun. It made the sun appear like a crescent with a bite taken out as the moon blocked out part of the light. Sky-gazers were able to…

On Saturday, all over the world, there was a spectacle in the sky during the partial solar eclipse. In Romania, the phenomenon began around 1:00 PM and could be observed from the western and northwestern parts of the country. The maximum coverage of the Sun was seen in...

How to see the partial solar eclipse and sun's ‘devil horns’ today

You might be forgiven for thinking it’s the end of the world today when the sun suddenly sprouts ‘devil horns’. A partial solar eclipse will be visible in the UK and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere in the next few hours. Partial solar eclipses happen when Earth, the moon and the sun are imperfectly aligned. The moon obscures only a chunk of the sun, a phenomenon that occurs every 18 months or so. In cosmic terms, eclipses shouldn’t happen…

How to see partial solar eclipse from the UK and around the world this weekend

A third of the Sun will be covered for people in the UK, with an eclipse map revealing the best places to witness the phenomenon

When I asked Father Arístides about the horns of the devil, the priest who had carried out scientific studies at prestigious universities in the United States and Europe, Miguel Valera told me, by boat soon, that the devil was a spiritual being and that that of the horns was pure tale, a kind of “inculturation” of Greek mythology, that he lived with Christians of the first centuries. In other words, the devil has no horns, neither is red, nor us…

This morning the Moon covered a small part of the Sun, approximately 14%, for an hour and a half.