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VIDEO: In Australia, A Total Solar Eclipse

There were two minutes of stunning astronomical coincidence over Australia today.

It was a total solar eclipse and the images are just stunning:

The AP reports that people across Australia waited on boats, hot air ballons, hill tops and beaches waiting for the sublime moment. Some worried that clouds would obscure it.

But totality, or the point at which the moon completely covers the surface of the sun, lasted 2 minutes and 5 seconds and it was spectacular.

ABC News posted video of the event as it approached totality:

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Eyder Peralta is NPR's East Africa correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya.