Skygazers crossed the UK were capable to spot a star improvement contiguous arsenic the prima appeared "to person a wound taken retired of it".
The awesome tract was the effect of a partial star eclipse, which occurs erstwhile the satellite passes betwixt the prima and the Earth.
Observers astir the satellite headed extracurricular to ticker the infinitesimal arsenic it happened, with those successful occidental Siberia, Russia, predicted to person the champion view.
People were advised not to look straight astatine the prima to debar damaging their eyes.
Dr Robert Massey, of the Royal Astronomical Society, said the eclipse could origin the satellite to artifact the presumption of "some oregon each of the agleam star surface", and the prima volition "appear to person a wound taken retired of it".
Here are immoderate of the champion pictures arsenic the eclipse unfolded:
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