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Partial solar eclipse visible worldwide on Friday
Jan 13, 2010, 15:30 GMT
Cairo - A partial solar eclipse will be visible worldwide Friday, beginning in central Africa and crossing the Indian Ocean to south-east Asia.
The eclipse is the first of the year.
According to the US space agency NASA, the course of the eclipse's 3 hour, 45-minutes trajectory, would cover a distance of approximately 12,900 kilometres, or 0.87 per cent of Earth's surface area.
Astronomical centres in the Middle East said countries in the region would see the annular eclipse early Friday morning.
Astronomers have warned against gazing directly into the sun during the eclipse without using special equipment, because it might lead to permanent blindness.
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the earth so that the sun is partially or fully covered.
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