This morning (March 19) starting at about 8:18 a.m. and lasting until about 10:42 a.m. GMT, a solar eclipse was visible in the UK and other parts of Europe.
Many donned safety glasses so that they could stare at the sun for a few hours without damaging their eyes, to catch the rare occurrence, which happens when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun:
In the UK, the solar eclipse was only partial, meaning that the sun was never fully blocked out by the moon. To see a full eclipse, you had to be in the Faroe Islands or on the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway.
Those who were there had a tremendous view. Here’s a video of the climactic moments of the eclipse taken by Liz Bonnin of the BBC on a flight over the Faroe Islands. (It’s worth watching with sound to hear the excellent commentary):
And here, from Sky News, is a video that condenses the full two-and-a-half hours of the eclipse into 60 seconds.