article_snippet: This morning observers across Europe were treated to a rare solar eclipse as the moon passed across the face of the sun and obscured the sun almost entirely from view.
article_snippet: People in the UK were treated to a partial solar eclipse this morning.
article_snippet: This morning, millions across Britain stopped to watch the country's first solar eclipse this century, which plunged parts of the UK in to brief darkness.
article_snippet: Britain's skies began to darken at around 8.24am this morning as a new moon started to move between us and the sun, with the eclipse peaking at around 9.30am across the country.
article_snippet: In the Hebrides the sun was practically invisible as the Isle of Lewis experienced a 98 per cent eclipse, while the Faroe Islands saw a total eclipse.
article_snippet: The last solar eclipse of such significance occurred on August 11 1999, and was 'total' - with 100 per cent of the sun covered when seen from Cornwall.
article_snippet: Another 'deep' partial eclipse visible in the UK will not occur until August 12 2026, and the next total eclipse not until September 2090.
article_snippet: Today's eclipse produced a 100-mile-wide 'totality' shadow path that crossed the North Atlantic and covers only two land masses, the Faroe Islands between Scotland and Iceland and the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
article_snippet: A partial eclipse was visible across a large part of the northern hemisphere, including the whole of Europe, Greenland, Newfoundland, northern Africa and western Asia.
article_snippet: This morning, millions across Britain stopped to watch the country's first solar eclipse this century, which plunged parts of the UK in to brief darkness . '
highlights_snippet: People in the UK were treated to a partial solar eclipse this morning .
  