Day is set to turn into night when the sun vanishes from the sky during a rare total solar eclipse on a remote peninsula on the Western Australian coast.
About 20,000 eclipse chasers from around the world are expected to witness the phenomenon on Thursday when the moon casts a 40-kilometre-wide shadow over the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo reef region.
“A total solar eclipse can be a life-changing experience, the temperature drops, the land and the sea look different, and the stars come out,” CSIRO deputy space and astronomy director Mark Cheung said.
“These events are even more special because they are so rare and fall on such small areas where people can witness them.”…