‘Ring of Fire’: Rare annular solar eclipse captured in stunning images across West and South Asia

Annular Solar eclipse seen from Cheruvathur in Kerala. (Source: The Hindu)

Annular Solar eclipse from Cheruvathur, Kerala (Source: The Hindu)

A partial solar eclipse is seen from Quezon city, metropolitan Manila, Philippines on Thursday. (Source: AP)

A student in Telangana's Khammam looks at the eclipse aided by dark glasses and a X ray film strip.

The bird fly across during the solar eclipse in seen from Mumbai's Kandivali, located in the northern suburbs of Mumbai on Thursday. (Source: The Hindu)

A view of Solar Eclipse at 9.31 AM in Salem in Tamil Nadu (Source: THE HINDU)

A glimpse of solar eclipse on the beach road captured against the backdrop of a two children clicked in multiple exposure technic in Visakhapatanm on Thursday (Source: The Hindu)

A Boy views the solar eclipse at Lal Bagh Botanical Garden in Bangalore. (Source: Sampath Kumar GP)

A solar eclipse is observed at Pappampatti in Coimbatore on Thursday (Source: The Hindu)

Solar eclipse seen through a high quality solar filter at Periyar Science and Technology Centre on Thursday. (Source: The Hindu)

Solar eclipses as seen through a telescope supplied by the Pondicherry Science Forum on Beach Road in Puducherry on Thursday. Photo: S.S. Kumar / The Hindu (Source: The Hindu)

In this photo taken behind reflective window glass, a partial solar eclipse is seen from Jiddah, Saudi Arabia on Thursday (Source: AP)

People use gl;asses with X ray film to view the solar eclipse in Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh on Thursday. (Source: The Hindu)

Annular solar eclipse seen from Anna Science Centre at planetarium in Tiruchi on Thursday. (Source: The Hindu)

Students of A B Goregaonkar school watch eclipse from the pinhole instruments made them to watch solar eclipse. . (Source: The Hindu)

A woman comforts her daughter, buried up to her neck in sand during a solar eclipse, along Clifton beach in Karachi, Pakistan on December 26, 2019. Many Pakistanis believe that burying people with disabilities in sand during solar eclipse would bring healing to their bodies. (Source: Reuters)

Villagers watch a solar eclipse at Pappampatti in Coimbatore on Thursday (Source: The Hindu)

A partial solar eclipse is seen from Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. (Source: AP)

The Sun God idol covered in a red cloth during solar eclipse period at Sun temple in Bhuleshwar. (Source: The Hindu)

Temples remain closed in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, on Thursday, 26 December 2019, following Solar Eclipse. Photo: G. Karthikeyan/ The Hindu. (Source: The Hindu.)