Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that the sunlight that shines through the Moon’s mountains and valleys just ...

TIL that the sunlight that shines through the Moon’s mountains and valleys just before and after a total or annual solar eclipse, creating a string of bright, shimmering points of light along its edge is a phenomenon called Baily’s beads or the diamond ring effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baily%27s_beads
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