Across the Americas, thousands of people marveled at the rare spectacle of an annular solar eclipse, where the moon passed in front of the sun, forming a captivating "ring of fire" in the sky.

Oscar Lopez, a 26-year-old from Mexico City, emphasized that witnessing this event was an unmissable experience, and he traveled to the southern Mexican city of Campeche to observe the eclipse.

The eclipse followed a path across regions including the U.S. Pacific Northwest, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, as well as parts of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, and Brazil before fading into the Atlantic Ocean at sunset.

An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon is at or near its farthest point from Earth while passing between our planet and the sun. Unlike a total solar eclipse, it does not completely obscure the sun but instead creates a striking image of a luminous ring surrounding the moon's dark disc against the backdrop of the sun.