The Total Solar Eclipse of 2016 in Pictures

The moon blocked out the sun over Indonesia and nearby regions on March 9, 2016 in a total solar eclipse that wowed stargazers across southeast Asia. See photos from the amazing sun event here. THIS IMAGE: The total solar eclipse of 2016 reaches totality in this still image from a NASA webcast on March 8, 2016 from Woleai Island in Micronesia, where it was March 9 local time during the eclipse.

Great prominences on the sun are visible in this fiery telescope view of the total solar eclipse of March 8/9, 2016 as seen in a NASA webcast from Woleai Island in Micronesia arranged in partnership with the Exploratorium in California.

The “diamond ring” effect is seen in this view of the March 8, 2016 total solar eclipse, which was captured by the Slooh Community Observatory.

Pratiti Nath of Calcutta, India, captured this shot of a partial solar eclipse on March 9, 2016.

The total solar eclipse of 2016 nears totality in this telescope view captured on March 9, 2016 from Woleai Island in Micronesia during a NASA webcast.

Another image of the March 9, 2016 partial solar eclipse taken by Pratiti Nath, of Calcutta, India.

The moon blocks out the sun’s disk over Indonesia on March 8, 2016 in this screengrab from an eclipse webcast by the online Slooh Community Observatory.

Doug Furtek captured this view of the solar eclipse at 8:38 a.m. local time in the Malaysian town of Tawau, which is on the island of Borneo.

This NASA graphic depicts the 100-mile-wide (160 kilometers) path of totality for the total solar eclipse of March 8, 2016 (which will actually occur on March 9 in Southeast Asia, which lies on the other side of the international date line).

This NASA graphic shows how much of the sun will be covered by the moon for parts of southeast Asia on March 9, 2016 during a total solar eclipse. Shown here is a total solar eclipse for southern Borneo at 0030 GMT, while nearby regions see a partial eclipse.

This NASA graphic shows the visibility ranges for the total solar eclipse of 2016 over parts of southeast Asia on March 9, 2016. The red bar in the center denotes the path of totality, where the full eclipse is visible.

Wednesday, March 9. The path of totality crosses the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Halmahera in Indonesia, before heading to across the Pacific Ocean. It is seen here from Palembang on Sumatra. Partial phases of the eclipse will be visible in Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Papua-New Guinea, all of Australia except the southeast, Alaska, and Hawaii.

Astrophotographer Akash Anandh employed a telescope at the National University of Singapore to take one photo of the solar eclipse, but for this shot he tells Space.com in an email message that he used a 75-300mm telephoto lens. Image taken March 8, 2016.

Astrophotographer Pongpat Sensouphone sent in a photo of the March 8, 2016, total solar eclipse taken in Vientiane, Laos.

Astrophotographer Tommi Principe captured the total solar eclipse of March 8, 2016, in Cainta, The Philippines. He used welder’s glass to make the photograph.

Astrophotographer Ben Ali Tolentino sent in an image of the total solar eclipse of March 8, 2016, projected on a wall in the Philippines.

While photographing the total solar eclipse of March 8, 2016, astrophotographer Vincent Tan caught a plane also transiting the sun’s face. Tan’s Instagram account gives the location of the photo as the Marina Barrage dam in Singapore.