Credit: NASA/SDO/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Caption: Lunar transit of Sun. Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) clip of the Moon (dark shadow) passing in front of the Sun on 30 January 2014. This event is known as a transit. Towards the end of the clip, after the Moon has passed across the Sun, a solar flare erupts from the Sun at left. This clip was obtained in 304 angstrom light.

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